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Examining Bilingual Language Control Using the Stroop Task
Published on: February 26, 2020
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A call for sophisticated statistical approaches and neuroimaging techniques to study the bilingual advantage
Walter J B van Heuven1, Emily L Coderre2
1School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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