Speaking two languages enhances an auditory but not a visual neural marker of cognitive inhibition

AIMS Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 145-157

  Fernandez, Mercedes ^a   Acosta, Juliana ^a   Douglass, Kevin ^a   Doshi, Nikita ^a   Tartar, Jaime L ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Event related brain potentials; Executive function; Inhibition; N2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973270910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23737972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2014.2.145     Document Type: Article

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