Specificity of the bilingual advantage for memory: Examining cued recall, generalization, and working memory in monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual toddlers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Brito, Natalie H ^a   Grenell, Amanda ^b   Barr, Rachel ^b  

^a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Columbia University in the City of New York ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Deferred imitation; Generalization; Imitation; Infant development; Memory; Memory flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923354828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01369     Document Type: Article

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