Successive bilingualism and executive functions: The effect of second language use on inhibitory control in a behavioural Stroop Colour Word task

Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 630-645

  Heidlmayr, Karin ^a   Moutier, Sylvain ^b   Hemforth, Barbara ^c   Courtin, Cyril ^b   Tanzmeister, Robert ^d   Isel, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMR 7110 Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Université Paris Diderot   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

active inhibition; bilingual language processing; executive functions; frequency of second language use; Stroop interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901931535     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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