Inhibition and adjective learning in bilingual and monolingual children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Yoshida, Hanako ^a   Tran, Duc N ^a   Benitez, Viridiana ^b   Kuwabara, Megumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Attentional network test; Novel adjective learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867037688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00210     Document Type: Article

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