The impact of late, non-balanced bilingualism on cognitive performance

Cognition

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-46

  Vega Mendoza, Mariana ^a   West, Holly ^a   Sorace, Antonella ^a   Bak, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Bilingualism; Cognitive functions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL SWITCHING; BILINGUALISM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MONOLINGUALISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921334056     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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