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20852235

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
For monolinguals, the Simon effect is eliminated when Simon task trials are intermixed with ones in which participants respond to the words left and right with incompatibly mapped keypresses. For bilingual Dutch/French speakers, this result has been shown to occur when the words are in Dutch (their first and primary language), but not when they are in French. To dissociate the influence of order in which the languages were learned from whether the language was the primary one currently being used, we tested bilinguals who learned Spanish or Vietnamese as their first language but for whom English became their primary language. For both groups, the incompatible location-word mapping influenced performance of the Simon task when the words were in English but not when they were in the first language. These findings indicate that the strength of language, not order of acquisition, is the critical factor.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1532-5946
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
713-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Shared spatial representations for physical locations and location words in bilinguals' primary language.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, California State University Long Beach, 1250 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840, USA. kvu8@csulb.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.