Bilingualism and aging: Costs and benefits

Memory, Aging and the Brain: A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 115-131

  Craik, Fergus I M ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203866665     Document Type: Chapter

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