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Cognitive Gains Greater in Bilingual than Monolingual Infants

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Cognitive Gains Greater in Bilingual than Monolingual Infants

Ágnes Melinda Kovács,1 and Jacques Mehler report that in 3 eye-tracking studies we show that 7-month-old infants, raised with 2 languages from birth, display improved cognitive control abilities compared with matched monolinguals.

Whereas both monolinguals and bilinguals learned to respond to a speech or visual cue to anticipate a reward on one side of a screen, only bilinguals succeeded in redirecting their anticipatory looks when the cue began signaling the reward on the opposite side....
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