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Direct linkGrundy, John G.; Timmer, Kalinka – Second Language Research, 2017
Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have suggested that bilinguals also have greater working memory capacity than comparable monolinguals, but evidence for this suggestion is mixed. We therefore conducted a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Native Language
