Effects of script similarity on bilingual advantages in executive control are likely to be negligible or null

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Paap, Kenneth R ^a   Darrow, Jack ^a   Dalibar, Chirag ^a   Johnson, Hunter A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantages; Cognition; Executive functioning; Orthography; Script

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926623076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01539     Document Type: Note

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