Working memory development in monolingual and bilingual children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-202

  Morales, Julia ^a   Calvo, Alejandra ^b   Bialystok, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Conflict resolution; Executive function; Simon task; Visuospatial span; Working memory

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; WORKING MEMORY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85027918782     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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