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Abstract
Studies have shown that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving executive control. The present paper reviews some of the evidence for this conclusion and relates the findings to the effect of bilingualism on cognitive organisation and to conceptual issues in the structure of executive control. Evidence for the protective effect of bilingualism against Alzheimer's disease is presented with some speculation about the reason for that protection. PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21910523 PMCID: PMC4341987 DOI: 10.1037/a0025406
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Can J Exp Psychol ISSN: 1196-1961