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Is there a relation between onset age of bilingualism and enhancement of cognitive control?
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Young English-speaking monolingual and bilingual adults were examined for English proficiency, language use history, and performance on a flanker task. The bilinguals, who were about twenty years old, were divided into two ...
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Co-Authors in Economics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
We explore the phenomenon of co-authorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most two economist co-authors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have three economist co-authors who ...
Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies
(Informa UK Limited, 2012)
In a quantitative meta-analysis, using the activation likelihood estimation method, we examined the neural regions involved in bilingual cognitive control, particularly when engaging in switching between languages. The ...
Bilingualism is not a categorical variable: Interaction between language proficiency and usage
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)
Bilingual experience is dynamic and poses a challenge for researchers to develop instruments that capture its relevant dimensions. The present study examined responses from a questionnaire administered to 110 heterogeneous ...
Efecto de una plataforma virtual en comprensión de lectura y vocabulario: Una alternativa para mejorar las capacidades lectoras en primaria
(2013)
Frente a los bajos resultados que los niños peruanos obtienen en las pruebas nacionales
e internacionales de comprensión de lectura y tomando en consideración el aumento de
inversión en tecnología en las instituciones ...
Anchoring and Adjusting in Questionnaire Responses
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)
When ordering items on attitude/opinion questionnaires, do survey designers bias respondents’ answers by the mere act of choosing to organize their survey in a particular way? We hypothesize that, under specific ...
The Social Perspective Taking Process: Strategies and Sources of Evidence in Taking Another’s Perspective
(2012)
Background/Context:
Research indicates that social perspective taking – the capacity to discern the thoughts and feelings of others – plays a role in many important outcomes in schools. Despite the potential benefits ...
Mapping Multicultural Education
(2013-07-08)