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Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants

Ágnes Melinda Kovács, Jacques Mehler

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009. DOI 10.1073/pnas.0811323106

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed.

Replications

• Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7‐month‐old bilingual infants: A close multi‐center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009), Spit et al. (2023). Outcome recorded: failed. We did not replicate the findings of the original study, calling into question the robustness of the claim that bilingual infants have enhanced cognitive abilities. View paper

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