Verbal and nonverbal cognitive control in bilinguals and interpreters

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1579-1586

  Woumans, Evy ^a   Ceuleers, Evy ^b   Van Der Linden, Lize ^c   Szmalec, Arnaud ^c   Duyck, Wouter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Interpreting; Language control; Language switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941175621     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000107     Document Type: Article

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