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Direct linkBialystok, Ellen; Martin, Michelle M. – Developmental Science, 2004
In a previous study, a bilingual advantage for preschool children in solving the dimensional change card sort task was attributed to superiority in inhibition of attention (Bialystok, 1999). However, the task includes difficult representational demands to encode and interpret the task stimuli, and bilinguals may also have profited from superior…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preschool Children, Inhibition, Bilingualism
