Assessing Executive Function

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Yurtsever A. Anderson J. A. E. Grundy J. G. (2023). Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on executive function tasks far more often than chance: An updated quantitative analysis. Developmental Review, 69, 101084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2023.101084