Bilingual Advantages in Executive Functioning: Problems in Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, and the Identification of the Theoretical Constructs

Bilingual Advantages in Executive Functioning: Problems in Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, and the Identification of the Theoretical Constructs

A sample of 58 bilingual and 62 monolingual university students completed four tasks commonly used to test for bilingual advantages in executive functioning (EF): antisaccade, flanker, Simon, and color-shape switching. Across the four tasks, 13 different indices were derived that are assumed to re...

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Main Authors: Kenneth R. Paap, Oliver eSawi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Executive Function
conflict monitoring
working memory capacity
Inhibitory Control
switching
convergent validity
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00962/full

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