Cross-Language Intrusion Errors in Aging Bilinguals Reveal the Link Between Executive Control and Language Selection

H. Gollan, Tamar; C. Sandoval, Tiffany; P. Salmon, David

doi:10.1177/0956797611417002

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Cross-Language Intrusion Errors in Aging Bilinguals Reveal the Link Between Executive Control and Language Selection

Published in Psychological Science • Jul 20, 2011

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Tamar H. Gollan

Tiffany C. Sandoval

David P. Salmon

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Bilinguals outperform monolinguals on measures of executive control, but it is not known how bilingualism introduces these advantages. To address this question, we investigated whether language-control failures increase with aging-related declines in executive control. Eighteen younger and 18 older ...

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