Language and culture modulate online semantic processing
| Autor: | Manon W. Jones, Ceri Ellis, Jan Rouke Kuipers, Guillaume Thierry, Victoria E. Lovett, Oliver H. Turnbull |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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linguistic relativity Multilingualism Welsh 0302 clinical medicine Reading (process) Semantic memory Evoked Potentials media_common Language 4. Education 05 social sciences Brain Cognition General Medicine Semantics England language symbols Speech Perception Female Psychology Cognitive psychology Adult Speech perception Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences symbols.namesake Young Adult Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Linguistic relativity Communication Cultural Characteristics Wales business.industry Original Articles bilingualism language.human_language culture Reading business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 1749-5024 |
| Popis: | Language has been shown to influence non-linguistic cognitive operations such as colour perception, object categorization and motion event perception. Here, we show that language also modulates higher level processing, such as semantic knowledge. Using event-related brain potentials, we show that highly fluent Welsh–English bilinguals require significantly less processing effort when reading sentences in Welsh which contain factually correct information about Wales, than when reading sentences containing the same information presented in English. Crucially, culturally irrelevant information was processed similarly in both Welsh and English. Our findings show that even in highly proficient bilinguals, language interacts with factors associated with personal identity, such as culture, to modulate online semantic processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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