Qualitative differences between bilingual language control and executive control: Evidence from task-switching

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Calabria, Marco ^a   Hernández, Mireia ^a,b,c   Branzi, Francesca M ^a   Costa, Albert ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Executive control; Language control; Language switching; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867120397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00399     Document Type: Article

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