Attentional control in early and later bilingual children

Cognitive Development

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 233-246

  Kapa, Leah L ^a   Colombo, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention Network Test; Attentional monitoring; Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882773067     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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