Examining the effects of active versus inactive bilingualism on executive control in a carefully matched non-immigrant sample

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-26

  de Bruin, Angela ^a   Bak, Thomas H ^a   Della Sala, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Immigrant status; Inhibitory control; Language use; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937501100     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.07.001     Document Type: Article

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