Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently

被引:3
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作者
Fernandez-Duque, Matias [1 ]
Hayakawa, Sayuri [1 ,2 ]
Marian, Viorica [1 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, Dept Commun Sci & Disorders, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[2] Oklahoma State Univ, Dept Psychol, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
EYE-MOVEMENTS; BILINGUALS; PROFICIENCY; COMPETITION; NORMS; COMPREHENSION; RECOGNITION; HYPOTHESIS; LEXTALE; WORDS;
D O I
10.1126/sciadv.adh0064
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a visual scene. When hearing a word, listeners activate other similar-sounding words before settling on the correct target. We tested whether this linguistic coactivation during a visual search task changes memory for objects. Bilinguals and monolinguals remembered English competitor words that overlapped phonologically with a spoken English target better than control objects without name overlap. High Spanish proficiency also enhanced memory for Spanish competitors that overlapped across languages. We conclude that linguistic diversity partly accounts for differences in higher cognitive functions such as memory, with multilinguals providing a fertile ground for studying the interaction between language and cognition.
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