A cautionary note on the studies using the picture-word interference paradigm: the unwelcome consequences of the random use of “in/animates”

AR Sá-Leite, M Comesaña, C Acuña-Fariña… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm allows us to delve into the process of lexical
access in language production with great precision. It creates situations of interference …

Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently

M Fernandez-Duque, S Hayakawa, V Marian - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine
how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a …

The gender congruency effect across languages in bilinguals: A meta-analysis

AR Sá-Leite, K Luna, I Fraga, M Comesaña - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
In the study of gender representation and processing in bilinguals, two contrasting
perspectives exist: integrated versus autonomous (Costa, Kovacic, Franck, & Caramazza …

The masculine form in grammatically gendered languages and its multiple interpretations: A challenge for our cognitive system

P Gygax, S Sato, A Öttl, U Gabriel - Language Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
We analyze the semantic ambiguity of the grammatically masculine form in languages
where this form has more than one meaning (eg, French, German, English to some extent) …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: A meta-analysis of the gender congruency effect

AR Sá-Leite, K Luna, Â Tomaz, I Fraga, M Comesana - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Grammatical gender retrieval during language production has been largely addressed
through the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm, with the aim of capturing the so-called …

Prediction on the basis of gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children

JE Bosch, M Chailleux, J Yee, MT Guasti… - Studies in …, 2022 - torrossa.com
The present study used a visual world eye-tracking paradigm to investigate online
processing of grammatical gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children, in …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: an ERP study

SG Zu Wolfsthurn, LP Robles, NO Schiller - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated cross-linguistic interference in German low-proficient late learners of
Spanish. We examined the modulating influence of gender congruency and cognate status …

Exploring the nature of the gender-congruency effect: implicit gender activation and social bias

A Casado, AR Sá-Leite, F Pesciarelli… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The aim of the study was to explore the nature of the gender-congruency effect,
characterized by a facilitation on the processing of congruent words in grammatical gender …

Language balance rather than age of acquisition: A study on the cross-linguistic gender congruency effect in Portuguese–German bilinguals

AR Sá-Leite, C Flores, C Eira, J Haro… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The cross-linguistic gender congruency effect (GCE; a facilitation on gender retrieval for
translations of the same gender) is a robust phenomenon analysed almost exclusively with …

The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

D Paolieri, J Demestre, M Guasch, T Bajo… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The present study examines whether processing a word in one language is affected by the
grammatical gender of its translation equivalent in another language. To this end, a group of …