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Verdonschot, Rinus G.; Middelburg, Renee; Lensink, Saskia E.; Schiller, Niels O. – Cognition, 2012
In a long-lag morphological priming experiment, Dutch (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals were asked to name pictures and read aloud words. A design using non-switch blocks, consisting solely of Dutch stimuli, and switch-blocks, consisting of Dutch primes and targets with intervening English trials, was administered. Target picture naming was facilitated…
Descriptors: Priming, Inhibition, Cognitive Processes, Indo European Languages
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Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Marian, Viorica – Cognition, 2011
Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant information. The present study aimed to identify how processing linguistic ambiguity during auditory comprehension may be associated with inhibitory control. Monolinguals and bilinguals listened to words in their native language (English) and identified them among…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Inhibition
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Carlson, Laura A.; Van Deman, Shannon R. – Cognition, 2008
Spatial terms such as "right" are potentially ambiguous because they can refer to different regions of space when defined by competing reference frames (e.g., my "right" within a relative reference frame versus an object's "right" within an intrinsic reference frame). In such situations, previous research has suggested that multiple reference…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Spatial Ability, Cues, Language Processing
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Conway, Christopher M.; Bauernschmidt, Althea; Huang, Sean S.; Pisoni, David B. – Cognition, 2010
Fundamental learning abilities related to the implicit encoding of sequential structure have been postulated to underlie language acquisition and processing. However, there is very little direct evidence to date supporting such a link between implicit statistical learning and language. In three experiments using novel methods of assessing implicit…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Auditory Perception, Short Term Memory
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Verhoef, Kim; Roelofs, Ardi; Chwilla, Dorothee J. – Cognition, 2009
How are bilinguals able to switch from one language to another? The prevailing inhibition hypothesis takes larger reaction-time (RT) costs for switching to the first language (L1) than to the second language (L2) as evidence for suppression of the non-target language. Switch cost asymmetries can alternatively be explained by an L1-repeat-benefit,…
Descriptors: Intervals, Inhibition, Brain, Bilingualism
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Howard, David; Nickels, Lyndsey; Coltheart, Max; Cole-Virtue, Jennifer – Cognition, 2006
We report an experiment in which subjects named 120 pictures, consisting of series of five pictures drawn from each of 24 semantic categories (and intermixed with 45 fillers). The number of intervening trials (lag) between successive presentations of members of the same category varied from two to eight. Subjects' naming latencies were slowed by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Inhibition, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis