Neuroanatomical Evidence in Support of the Bilingual Advantage Theory

The "bilingual advantage" theory stipulates that constant selection and suppression between 2 languages results in enhanced executive control (EC). Behavioral studies of EC in bilinguals have employed wide-ranging tasks and report some conflicting results. To avoid concerns about tasks, we...

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Published in:	Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 3196 - 3204
Main Authors:	Olulade, O A, Jamal, N I, Koo, D S, Perfetti, C A, LaSasso, C, Eden, G F
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.07.2016
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Executive Function Female Frontal Lobe - diagnostic imaging Gray Matter - diagnostic imaging Humans Language Tests Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Models, Psychological Multilingualism Organ Size Sign Language Young Adult bimodal bilingual executive control voxel-based morphometry unimodal bilingual bilingual advantage
ISSN:	1460-2199
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