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'Mental Workouts for Couch Potatoes': Executive Function Variation among Spanish-English Bilingual Young Adults
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Smith, Sara Ashley; Briggs, Jessica G.; Pothier, Holly; Garcia, Jorge Nicholas, Jr. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Research has yet to reach a definitive consensus on whether or how bilingualism confers benefits on Executive Function (EF): numerous studies show an EF advantage for bilinguals over monolinguals, while others indicate no significant differences. These inconsistencies demonstrate that the mechanisms behind a potential bilingualism-to-EF…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Spanish, English (Second Language), Bilingualism