Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in Bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on Card Sorting, Simon, and Metalinguistic Tasks

Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in Bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on Card Sorting, Simon, and Metalinguistic Tasks

This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for three tasks in an established population of fully fluent bilinguals from childhood through adulthood. Welsh-English simultaneous and early sequential bilinguals, as well as English monolinguals, aged 3 years through ol...

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Main Authors: Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli Mon Thomas, Ivan eKennedy, Cynog ePrys, Nia eYoung, Nestor eViñas-Guasch, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes, Leah eJones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Executive Function
language dominance
simon task
Bilingual Children
Language Balance
Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00011/full

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