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Raluca Barac
Researcher at Hospital for Sick Children
Publications - 17
Citations - 2041
Raluca Barac is an academic researcher from Hospital for Sick Children. The author has contributed to research in topics: Motivational interviewing & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 17 publications receiving 1746 citations. Previous affiliations of Raluca Barac include Keele University & York University.
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Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function
Sylvain Moreno,Ellen Bialystok,Raluca Barac,E. Glenn Schellenberg,Nicholas J. Cepeda,Tom Chau +5 more
TL;DR: The effects of two interactive computerized training programs developed for preschool children: one for music and one for visual art demonstrate that transfer of a high-level cognitive skill is possible in early childhood.
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The cognitive development of young dual language learners: A critical review
TL;DR: The existing evidence points to areas of cognitive development in bilingual children where findings are robust or inconclusive, and reveals variables that influence performance.
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Bilingual effects on cognitive and linguistic development: role of language, cultural background, and education.
Raluca Barac,Ellen Bialystok +1 more
TL;DR: On the executive control task, all bilingual groups performed similarly and exceeded monolinguals; on the language tasks the best performance was achieved by bilingual children whose language of instruction was the same as the language of testing and whose languages had more overlap.
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Emerging Bilingualism: Dissociating Advantages for Metalinguistic Awareness and Executive Control.
Ellen Bialystok,Raluca Barac +1 more
TL;DR: In both studies, level of proficiency in the language of testing and length of time in the immersion program was related to performance on executive control tasks, consistent with models of lifespan development that distinguish between representational structure and executive control.
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Word Mapping and Executive Functioning in Young Monolingual and Bilingual Children
TL;DR: Evidence for a bilingual advantage in aspects of executive functioning at an earlier age than previously reported is discussed in terms of the possibility that bilingual language production may not be the only source of these developmental effects.