Is there a bilingual advantage in the ANT task? Evidence from children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Antón, Eneko ^a   Duñabeitia, Jon A ^a   Estévez, Adelina ^b   Hernández, Juan A ^b   Castillo, Alejandro ^c   Fuentes, Luis J ^c   Davidson, Douglas J ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,d,e,f  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

ANT task; Attention; Bilingual advantage; Executive control; Inhibitory skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904565462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00398     Document Type: Article

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