Data trimming procedure can eliminate bilingual cognitive advantage

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1221-1230

  Zhou, Beinan ^a   Krott, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantage; Data trimming; Non verbal interference tasks; Response time distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COGNITION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948136821     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0981-6     Document Type: Review

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