Does Speaking Two Dialects in Daily Life Affect Executive Functions? An Event-Related Potential Study.

Whether using two languages enhances executive functions is a matter of debate. Here, we take a novel perspective to examine the bilingual advantage hypothesis by comparing bi-dialect with mono-dialect speakers' performance on a non-linguistic task that requires executive control. Two groups of...

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Main Authors: Yan Jing Wu, Haoyun Zhang, Taomei Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4798723?pdf=render