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