Never too late? An advantage on tests of auditory attention extends to late bilinguals.

Recent studies, using predominantly visual tasks, indicate that early bilinguals outperform monolinguals on attention tests. It remains less clear whether such advantages extend to those bilinguals who have acquired their second language later in life.<br/><br/>We examined this question...

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Main Authors: Thomas Hieronymus Bak, Mariana eVega-Mendoza, Antonella eSorace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00485/full