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Employing Natural Control for Confounding Factors in the Hunt for the Bilingual Advantage in Attention: Evidence from School Children in Gibraltar

Journal of Cognition
Volume 3 (2020): Issue 1
By: Chris M. Moreno-Stokoe and  Markus F. Damian  
Open Access
|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.94 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 3, 2019
Accepted on: Feb 25, 2020
Published on: Mar 20, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Bilingualism,
Executive functions,
Auditory Attention,
Attentional Components

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