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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. The earliest on record is from 2023.

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). Developmental Science. 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. Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

Cite this record

Kovács, Á. M., & Mehler, J. (2009). Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(16), 6556–6560. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811323106

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