Conflict resolution in sentence processing is the same for bilinguals and monolinguals: The role of confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-74

  Paap, Kenneth R ^a,b   Liu, Yunyun ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantage; Confirmation bias; Conflict; Control; Executive functions; Homograph

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MONOLINGUAL; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 84886801508     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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