Cognitive control in bilinguals: Advantages in Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition

Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 610-629

  Blumenfeld, Henrike K ^a   Marian, Viorica ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; inhibition; Simon task; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901827891     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000564     Document Type: Article

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