The functional overlap of executive control and language processing in bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 471-488

  Coderre, Emily L ^a,b,c   Smith, Jason F ^b,d   Van Heuven, Walter J B ^a   Horwitz, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; executive control; fMRI; language processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930438413     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000188     Document Type: Article

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