Cognitive control in Russian-German bilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Festman, Julia ^a   Münte, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Conflict monitoring; Control; ERN; Executive function; Flanker task; Inhibition; Late bilinguals; Wisconsin card sortingTest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867123359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00115     Document Type: Article

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