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 …

The primary aim of this dissertation is to address an important issue of individual
susceptibility to false memories. Specifically, what is the role inhibitory control (IC) in …

En una serie de (tres experimentos se estudia una posible especificidad espacial del
mecanismo atencional inhibitorio. A través del paradigma de priming negativo se examina …

An important question when defining cognitive theories involves what happens to activated
mental representations in memory when they are no longer relevant to immediate …

Lexical Production Phenomena as Evidence for Activation and Control Processes in Trilingual
Lexical Retrieval Ph.D. Thesis Page 1 1 Lexical Production Phenomena as Evidence for …

Two issues were addressed in this study. First, it addresses the viability of the assertion that
working memory is crucial for reducing distraction by maintaining the prioritization of …

Persistenz und Neuorientierung sind Schlagworte, die nicht nur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit,
sondern auch den Prozeß ihrer Entstehung treffend charakterisieren. Daß ich in den Phasen …

Abstract Language access in bilinguals requires highly refined selective attention abilities.
This review chronicles the implications from cross-language priming studies collected from …

Although there is general agreement that information processing is disrupted in patients with
schizophrenia, there is significant controversy as to which mechanisms are disturbed. Some …

The present thesis examined whether the interference-by-process construct, as applied to
auditory distraction during visual-verbal serial recall (the irrelevant sound effect, ISE), also …