Learning and processing of nonverbal symbolic information in bilinguals and monolinguals

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on word learning and on inhibition tasks that require competition resolution. Yet the scope of such bilingual advantages remains underspecified. We compared bilinguals and monolinguals on nonverbal symbolic learning and on competition resolution...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Henrike Katina Blumenfeld, Ashley Marie Adams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01147/full