Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences?

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 615-639

  Paap, Kenneth R ^a   Johnson, Hunter A ^a   Sawi, Oliver ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantage; Bilingualism; Executive processing; Flanker task; Simon task; Switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GAZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; SPEECH;

EID: 84906936290     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.944914     Document Type: Article

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