A group of researchers, led by Diane Poulin-Dubois, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and Cristina Crivello, a graduate student with Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH), found that bilingual toddlers had an advantage over their monolingual peers in the area of cognitive flexibility
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Poulin Dubois was interviewed by Radio Canada Vancouver's 'Midi express' radio program. Crivello was on Radio Canada Manitoba's 'Le 6 à 9'.
The results of the study were recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.