| Autor: |
Scrimshire C; Psychology Department, California State University, San Bernardino-Palm Desert Campus, 37500 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211, USA., Amador SA; Psychology Department, California State University, San Bernardino-Palm Desert Campus, 37500 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211, USA., Aldariz AG; Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Cognitiva, Universidad Nebrija, 28240 Madrid, Spain., Meza G; Psychology Department, California State University, San Bernardino-Palm Desert Campus, 37500 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211, USA., Gomez P; Psychology Department, California State University, San Bernardino-Palm Desert Campus, 37500 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211, USA.; Psychology Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
This manuscript addresses the phenomenon of masked priming and the cognitive process of switching from Spanish to English while reading in sequential bilingual texts compared to heritage speakers. A lexical decision task was employed in the present study with masked translation priming, which serves as a valuable tool for elucidating the orthographic and lexical processes involved in the initial stages of reading. This study builds upon previous research conducted on monolingual masked priming, which consistently demonstrates shifts in the response time (RT) distributions when comparing related and unrelated primes. Within the framework of a diffusion model, we implemented two theoretical positions. First, we posited that translation priming operates at the orthographic level, resulting in enhanced efficiency during the encoding process. Second, we explored the possibility that translation priming operates at the semantic level, influencing the accumulation of evidence during the lexical decision task. The findings of the present study indicate that translation priming elicits outcomes similar to those observed in monolingual priming paradigms. Specifically, we observed that translation priming facilitation is manifested as shifts in the RT distributions. These findings are interpreted to suggest that the benefits derived from the encoding process are not specific to the accessed lexicon following a brief stimulus presentation. |
