Bilingualism Enriches the Poor: Enhanced Cognitive Control in Low-Income Minority Children

This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty and, if it does, which specific processes are most affected. In the study reported here, 40 Portuguese-Luxembourgish bilingual children...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Psychological science 2012-11, Vol.23 (11), p.1364-1371
Hauptverfasser:	de Abreu, Pascale M. J. Engel, Cruz-Santos, Anabela, Tourinho, Carlos J., Martin, Romain, Bialystok, Ellen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bilingual education Bilingualism Bilingualism. Multilingualism Biological and medical sciences Caregivers Child Child development Children Children & youth Cognition Cognition & reasoning Cognitive development Developmental psychology Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology Executive Function Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Household income Humans Immigration Language Low income Low income groups Luxembourg Male Median income Memory Minority & ethnic groups Multilingualism Portugal Poverty Principal components analysis Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Reasoning Socioeconomic status Working memory
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