Characterizing Bilingual Effects on Cognition: The Search for Meaningful Individual Differences

A debate over the past decade has focused on the so-called bilingual advantage—the idea that bilingual and multilingual individuals have enhanced domain-general executive functions, relative to monolinguals, due to competition-induced monitoring of both processing and representation from the task-ir...

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Main Authors: Kristina C. Backer, Heather Bortfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/1/81