The effects of bilingual growth on toddlers' executive function

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 141, Issue , 2016, Pages 121-132

  Crivello, Cristina ^a   Kuzyk, Olivia ^a   Rodrigues, Monyka ^a   Friend, Margaret ^b   Zesiger, Pascal ^c   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive development; Cognitive flexibility; Executive function; Selective attention; Translation equivalents

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUEBEC; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; QUEBEC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84942133610     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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