Perspective-taking ability in bilingual children: Extending advantages in executive control to spatial reasoning

Cognitive Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-50

  Greenberg, Anastasia ^a   Bellana, Buddhika ^b   Bialystok, Ellen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Executive control; Perspective taking; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871442527     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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