Research has shown that several variables affect language control among bilingual
speakers but the effect of affective processing remains unexplored. Chinese–English …

Two experiments investigated positive priming and negative priming effects in a lexical
decision task. A priming task was used in which participants were required to make a verbal …

The purpose of the study was to investigate cross-language effects in verbal fluency tasks
where participants name in English as many exemplars of a target as they can in one …

Cognitive control is the ability to adapt flexibly to current demands by promoting task-
relevant information in the face of interference, and this has been asserted as an advantage …

Experiments examining identity priming from attended and ignored novel words (words that
are used only once except when repetition is required due to experimental manipulation) in …

Test responses are mostly the chief basis for diagnosis, but educational appraisals of
learners who experience difficulties mostly fail to account for the length of time the learner …

The ability to use multiple languages selectively is an impressive feat of the human
information processing system. Although bilinguals scarcely commit random cross-language …

In the current study, participants made a verbal naming response to a prime target word
flanked by a distractor word, followed by a lexical decision response to a probe target word …

Inhibitory control is critical for the flexible adjustment of behaviour to changing
environmental circumstances. Given the continuous flux of information competing for our …

ABSTRACT A bilingual primed lexical decision task was used to investigate priming effects
produced by attended and ignored words. Participants were required to name prime target …