Cognitive and electrophysiological correlates of the bilingual Stroop effect

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Naylor, Lavelda J ^a   Stanley, Emily M ^b   Wicha, Nicole Y Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Between language interference; Bilingual; Event related potential; Language dominance; N2; N450; Response conflict; Stroop

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867113478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00081     Document Type: Article

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