Beyond a simple "yes" and "no"

Cortex

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 332-333

  Bak, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognition; Executive functions; Immigration

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; COGNITIVE AGING; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INTELLIGENCE; NOTE; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84958548742     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.003     Document Type: Note

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