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Cross-language associative priming is influenced by language proficiency and executive control
- Source :
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 72:264-276
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2018.
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Abstract
- The present study investigated the impact of language proficiency and executive control (EC) ability on cross-language semantic activation using an English semantic priming lexical-decision task. Primes were either English-French homographs (i.e., words that share spelling but not meaning, e.g., pain means "bread" in French; related trial) or matched control words (e.g., pale; unrelated trial). Type of Priming was either translation (e.g., pain-BREAD) or cross-language associative (e.g., pain-BUTTER). A living/nonliving judgment task and a colour Stroop task measured individual differences in language proficiency and EC, respectively. Reaction time (RT) data from 58 bilingual young adults were analysed using linear mixed-effects modelling. Experimental variables (Type of Priming, relatedness), and individual-differences variables (English language proficiency, EC ability) served as fixed variables. Unlike previous studies on cross-language semantic activation, the current study included EC ability as an individual difference variable and found that it interacted with language proficiency to impact associative priming performance. Linear mixed-effects models for associative priming revealed that participants with slow English access exhibited increased positive priming from homographs, whereas individuals with fast lexical access experienced negative priming. Furthermore, these effects were exaggerated for individuals with poor EC. No effects of individual difference variables were observed on translation priming. These results suggest that theories of bilingual word recognition need to incorporate individual difference variables beyond language proficiency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Multilingualism
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
050105 experimental psychology
Psycholinguistics
Association
Executive Function
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Language proficiency
Association (psychology)
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Semantics
Word recognition
Negative priming
Female
Psychology
Priming (psychology)
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Stroop effect
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18787290 and 11961961
- Volume :
- 72
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d9990a118295847a297e0905def67b50