The influence of cross-language similarity on within- and between-language Stroop effects in trilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  van Heuven, Walter J B ^a   Conklin, Kathy ^a   Coderre, Emily L ^a   Guo, Taomei ^b   Dijkstra, Ton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Interference; Script; Stroop; Trilinguals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867194680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00374     Document Type: Article

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