Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Problems in convergent validity, discriminant validity, and the identification of the theoretical constructs

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Paap, Kenneth R ^a   Sawi, Oliver ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisaccade; Bilingualism; Executive processing; Flanker; Reliability; Simon; Switching; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906355784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00962     Document Type: Article

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