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Doubling down on multifactorial approaches to the study of bilingualism & executive control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2014

DEBRA TITONE ,
IRINA PIVNEVA ,
NAVEED A. SHEIKH ,
NICOLE WEBB  and
VERONICA M. WHITFORD
DEBRA TITONE
Affiliation:
McGill Universitydtitone@psych.mcgill.ca
IRINA PIVNEVA
Affiliation:
McGill University
NAVEED A. SHEIKH
Affiliation:
McGill University
NICOLE WEBB
Affiliation:
McGill University
VERONICA M. WHITFORD
Affiliation:
McGill University
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The study of bilingualism has generated great interest about a core issue: does the experience of using two or more languages lead to enduring changes in the bilingual brain. This issue is often framed as a search for bilingual advantages in cognition, most notably behavioral performance on executive control tasks. Valian's timely keynote (2014) adopts this framing.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 43 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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