ERP-pupil size correlations reveal how bilingualism enhances cognitive flexibility

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2853-2860

  Kuipers, Jan Rouke ^a   Thierry, Guillaume ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain development; Event related potentials; Norepinephrine; Pupil dilation; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MYDRIASIS; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUPIL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PUPIL DILATION; SEMANTIC PROCESSING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84889686981     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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