Unintentional activation of translation equivalents in bilinguals leads to attention capture in a cross-modal visual task.

Using a variant of the visual world eye tracking paradigm, we examined if language non-selective activation of translation equivalents leads to attention capture and distraction in a visual task in bilinguals. High and low proficient Hindi-English speaking bilinguals were instructed to programme a s...

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Main Authors: Niharika Singh, Ramesh Kumar Mishra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361716?pdf=render