How reading in a second language protects your heart

YJ Wu, G Thierry - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Reading words in a second language spontaneously activates native language translations
in the human bilingual mind. Here, we show that the emotional valence of a word presented …

Sequential congruency effects reveal differences in disengagement of attention for monolingual and bilingual young adults

JG Grundy, A Chung-Fat-Yim, DC Friesen, L Mak… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Three studies examined the hypothesis that bilinguals can more rapidly disengage attention
from irrelevant information than monolinguals by investigating the impact of previous trial …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing data from the psycholinguistic visual-world paradigm: Comparison of different analysis methods

A Ito, P Knoeferle - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we discuss key characteristics and typical experimental designs of the visual-
world paradigm and compare different methods of analysing eye-movement data. We …

Working memory capacity: Is there a bilingual advantage?

I Ratiu, T Azuma - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies suggest that bilinguals have certain executive function advantages over
monolinguals. However, few studies have examined specific working memory (WM) …

Knowledge of a second language influences auditory word recognition in the native language.

E Lagrou, RJ Hartsuiker, W Duyck - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Many studies in bilingual visual word recognition have demonstrated that lexical access is
not language selective. However, research on bilingual word recognition in the auditory …

Uses of eye-tracking data in second language sentence processing research

PE Dussias - Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010 - cambridge.org
When hearing or reading words and sentences in a second language (L2), we face many
uncertainties about how the people and objects referred to are connected to one another. So …

Lexical competition during second-language listening: sentence context, but not proficiency, constrains interference from the native lexicon.

CG Chambers, H Cooke - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
A spoken language eye-tracking methodology was used to evaluate the effects of sentence
context and proficiency on parallel language activation during spoken language …

Semantics and morphosyntax in predictive L2 sentence processing

H Hopp - International Review of Applied Linguistics in …, 2015 - degruyter.com
In the context of current approaches to anticipation in native and non-native sentence
processing, this paper investigates whether late second-language (L2) learners integrate …

Cross-modal and cross-language activation in bilinguals reveals lexical competition even when words or signs are unheard or unseen

S Villameriel, B Costello, M Giezen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We exploit the phenomenon of cross-modal, cross-language activation to examine the
dynamics of language processing. Previous within-language work showed that seeing a …

Individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken word processing

J Mercier, I Pivneva, D Titone - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We investigated whether individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken
word recognition. While their eye movements were monitored, native English and native …