ArticleMemory (Hove, England)2018
The effects of bilingual language proficiency on recall accuracy and semantic clustering in free recall output: evidence for shared semantic associations across languages.
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- Does bilingualism come with linguistic costs? A meta-analytic review of the bilingual lexical deficit.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- Bilingual Proficiency Effects on Word Recall and Recognition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Production benefits on encoding are modulated by language experience: Less experience may help.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Multi-Trial Episodic Recall and Recognition of Emotion-Laden Words in First Versus Second Language.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2021Article
- Rethinking Bilingual Enhancement Effects in Associative Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary: The Role of Proficiency in the Mediating Language.Journal of memory and language · 2020Article
- The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Temporal dynamics of free recall: The role of rehearsal efficiency in word frequency and bilingual language proficiency effects.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2020Article
- Word-context associations in episodic memory are learned at the conceptual level: Word frequency, bilingual proficiency, and bilingual status effects on source memory.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2019Article
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Two experiments investigated how well bilinguals utilise long-standing semantic associations to encode and retrieve semantic clusters in verbal episodic memory. In Experiment 1, Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 128) studied and recalled word and picture sets. Word recall was equivalent in L1 and L2, picture recall was better in L1 than in L2, and the picture superiority effect was stronger in L1 than in L2. Semantic clustering in word and picture recall was equivalent in L1 and L2. In Experiment 2, Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 128) and English-speaking monolinguals (N = 128) studied and recalled word sequences that contained semantically related pairs. Data were analyzed using a multinomial processing tree approach, the pair-clustering model. Cluster formation was more likely for semantically organised than for randomly ordered word sequences. Probabilities of cluster formation, cluster retrieval, and retrieval of unclustered items did not differ across languages or language groups. Language proficiency has little if any impact on the utilisation of long-standing semantic associations, which are language-general.
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