Being bilingual: l'avantage.
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Posted on February 4, 2016
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- Numerous media report on a new Concordia study of the cognitive benefits to children of being bilingual as toddlers. 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, noted during the performance of certain non-verbal conflict tasks: LaPresse.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, Huffington Post Québec, Journal Métro, Science Codex, Medical XPress, Science Alert, Radio Canada International (in Spanish), Big News Network, The Times of India, Web India 123, New Kerala, Business Standard, Sify News, NewsWise, NewsX, Live Mint and Today Topics. The results of the study were recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.