The benefits of being bilingual: Working memory in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-119

  Blom, Elma ^a   Küntay, Aylin C ^a,b   Messer, Marielle ^a   Verhagen, Josje ^a   Leseman, Paul ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Child second language acquisition; Dutch; Executive control; Socioeconomic status; Turkish; Verbal working memory; Visuospatial working memory

Indexed keywords

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84907354650     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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