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Macedonia, Manuela; Muller, Karsten; Friederici, Angela D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
Learning vocabulary in a foreign language is a laborious task which people perform with varying levels of success. Here, we investigated the neural underpinning of high performance on this task. In a within-subjects paradigm, participants learned 92 vocabulary items under two multimodal conditions: one condition paired novel words with iconic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Memory, Memorization
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Cole, Rachel L.; Pickering, Susan J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This study investigated the encoding strategies employed by Chinese and English language users when recalling sequences of pictured objects. The working memory performance of native English participants (n = 14) and Chinese speakers of English as a second language (Chinese ESL; n = 14) was compared using serial recall of visually-presented…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Memorization, English (Second Language), Chinese