No evidence for bilingual cognitive advantages: A test of four hypotheses.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. General

• Publication date

  2016-01-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/xge0000120PMID 26523426
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