A review of control processes and their locus in language switching

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1630-1645

  Declerck, Mathieu ^a,b   Philipp, Andrea M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Speech production; Task switching or executive control

Indexed keywords

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH;

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH;

EID: 84947048247     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0836-1     Document Type: Article

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