Lifelong Exposure to Multilingualism: New Evidence to Support Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Perquin, Magali ^a   Vaillant, Michel ^a   Schuller, Anne Marie ^b,c   Pastore, Jessica ^a   Dartigues, Jean François ^d   Lair, Marie Lise ^a   Diederich, Nico ^e  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c Applied Cognitive Science University of Luxembourg ^*  (Luxembourg)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LIFELONG LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84876990713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062030     Document Type: Article

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