The brain mechanisms underlying the cognitive benefits of bilingualism may be extraordinarily difficult to discover

AIMS Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 245-256

  Paap, Kenneth R ^a   Sawi, Oliver M ^a,b   Dalibar, Chirag ^a   Darrow, Jack ^a   Johnson, Hunter A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantage; Executive functioning; fMRI; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938209140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23737972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2014.3.245     Document Type: Review

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