Executive function and bilingualism in young and older adults

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Kousaie, Shanna ^a   Sheppard, Christine ^a   Lemieux, Maude ^b   Monetta, Laura ^b,c   Taler, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingual advantage; Bilingualism; Executive control; Executive function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANGLOPHONE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BOSTON NAMING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRANCOPHONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SIMON TASK; STROOP TEST; SUSTAINED ATTENTION TO RESPONSE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905044106     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00250     Document Type: Article

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