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Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Soto-Faraco, Salvador – Cognition, 1999
Compared online processing of Catalan phonemic contrasts in Spanish-dominant and Catalan-dominant Catalan-Spanish bilingual undergraduate students. Results supported hypothesis that L1 (first language) shapes the perceptual system at early stages of development in such a way that it will determine the perception of nonnative phonemic contrasts,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, College Students, Language Processing
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Avrahami, Judith; Kareev, Yaakov – Cognition, 1994
Three experiments using university students explored what constitutes an event and what determines its boundaries. Results supported the hypothesis that sequences of stimuli repeating in different contexts are cut out to become cognitive entities ("things" with a beginning and an end) in their own right. Results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students