Self-assessment of individual differences in language switching

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Rodriguez Fornells, Antoni ^a,b,c   Krämer, Ulrike M ^d,e   Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^f   Festman, Julia ^g   Münte, Thomas F ^e  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^g OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Natural language switching; Psychometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867042178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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