Bilingual effects on deployment of the attention system in linguistically and culturally homogeneous children and adults

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 121-136

  Yang, Sujin ^a   Yang, Hwajin ^b  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attention Network Test; Attention system; Bilingual advantages; Executive control; Global local processing efficiency; Orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ATTENTION; BILINGUALISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COLLEGE STUDENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MATURATION; RESPONSE TIME; SKILL; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; ASIAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959368926     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.011     Document Type: Article

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