Inhibitory control in bilinguals and musicians: event related potential (ERP) evidence for experience-specific effects.

Bilinguals and musicians exhibit behavioral advantages on tasks with high demands on executive functioning, particularly inhibitory control, but the brain mechanisms supporting these differences are unclear. Of key interest is whether these forms of experience influence cognition through similar or...

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Main Authors: Sylvain Moreno, Zofia Wodniecka, William Tays, Claude Alain, Ellen Bialystok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3990547?pdf=render