The effect of childhood bilectalism and multilingualism on executive control

Cognition

Volumn 149, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-30

  Antoniou, Kyriakos ^a   Grohmann, Kleanthes K ^b   Kambanaros, Maria ^c   Katsos, Napoleon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bilectalism; Executive control; Multilingualism; Typological distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILECTALISM; BILINGUALISM; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORSI BLOCKS TASK; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUID INTELLIGENCE TEST; GRAMMAR; GREECE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY ASSESSMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUNCIATION; SIMON TASK; SOCIAL STATUS; THE COLOR SHAPE TASK; THE SOCCER TASK; WORD FINDING VOCABULARY TEST; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY TEST; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84953438611     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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