Never too late? An advantage on tests of auditory attention extends to late bilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Bak, Thomas H ^a   Vega Mendoza, Mariana ^a   Sorace, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Attention; Auditory attention; Bilingualism; Cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904459843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00485     Document Type: Article

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