The effect of script similarity on executive control in bilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Coderre, Emily L ^a,b   van Heuven, Walter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Executive control; Script; Simon task; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907573810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01070     Document Type: Article

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