ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025
You Can Stand Under My Umbrella: Cognitive Load in Second-Language Reading.
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Second-language (L2) written processing has often been linked to cognitive disfluency, resembling fluency disruptions caused by perceptual challenges, such as visual degradation. This study used Virtual Reality to investigate whether cognitive disfluency in L2 mirrors perceptual disfluency by simulating adverse weather conditions (sunny vs. rainy) and applying visual masking. Spanish-English bilinguals completed a language decision task, identifying orthotactically unmarked words as either Spanish (L1) or English (L2) while experiencing these perceptual manipulations. Results showed that visual masking significantly increased reaction times, particularly for L1 words, suggesting that masking can diminish the native language advantage. Spanish words under masking elicited slower responses than unmasked ones, whereas L2 word recognition remained comparatively stable. Additionally, rainy weather conditions consistently slowed responses across both languages, indicating a general effect of environmental disfluency. A significant interaction between language and masking emerged, highlighting distinct cognitive effects for different disfluency types. These findings suggest that cognitive disfluency in L2 does not equate to perceptual disfluency; each affects processing differently. The use of Virtual Reality enabled the controlled manipulation of realistic environmental variables, offering valuable insights into how perceptual and linguistic challenges jointly influence bilingual language processing.
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