Cognitive Abilities Underlying the Bilingual Advantage in Set Shifting
Prior research has demonstrated that bilinguals outperform monolinguals on tasks requiring set shifting – that is, the ability to shift between different ways of thinking about an object or situation. For example, bilingual children have been shown to outperform monolingual controls on false-belief...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31882 |