Investigations into the locus of language-switching costs in older adult bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 51-64

  Hernandez, Arturo E ^a   Kohnert, Kathryn J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Language switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914164626     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672891300045X     Document Type: Article

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