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Commentary on Baum and Titone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Leah Kapa
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Susan Kemper
Affiliation:
University of Kansas

Extract

Baum and Titone address several issues related to bilingual advantages in executive control that are often overlooked in this literature but warrant further consideration and empirical investigation. We limit our comments to two issues: the problem of establishing the directional relationship between bilingualism and executive control and the problem of decomposing executive control.

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