A Longitudinal Study of Memory Advantages in Bilinguals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Ljungberg, Jessica K ^a,b   Hansson, Patrik ^a   Andrés, Pilar ^c   Josefsson, Maria ^e   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BILINGUAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MONOLINGUAL; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECALL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84883404199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073029     Document Type: Article

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