Two Languages, Two Minds: Flexible Cognitive Processing Driven by Language of Operation

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作者
Athanasopoulos, Panos [1 ]
Bylund, Emanuel [2 ]
Montero-Melis, Guillermo [2 ]
Damjanovic, Ljubica [3 ]
Schartner, Alina [4 ]
Kibbe, Alexandra [5 ]
Riches, Nick [6 ]
Thierry, Guillaume [7 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Dept Linguist & English Language, Lancaster LA1 4YL, England
[2] Stockholm Univ, Ctr Res Bilingualism, Stockholm, Sweden
[3] Univ Chester, Dept Psychol, Chester, Cheshire, England
[4] Newcastle Univ, Sch Educ Commun & Language Sci, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England
[5] Otto Von Guericke Univ, Inst Psychol, Magdeburg, Germany
[6] Newcastle Univ, Dept Speech & Language Pathol, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England
[7] Bangor Univ, Sch Psychol, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
关键词
bilingualism; cognition(s); cognitive processes; language; psycholinguistics; MOTION EVENT COGNITION; ENGLISH; PERCEPTION; OBJECTS;
D O I
10.1177/0956797614567509
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
People make sense of objects and events around them by classifying them into identifiable categories. The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long-standing debate: Do different languages cause their speakers to behave differently? Here, we show that fluent German-English bilinguals categorize motion events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate. First, as predicted from cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding, bilingual participants functioning in a German testing context prefer to match events on the basis of motion completion to a greater extent than do bilingual participants in an English context. Second, when bilingual participants experience verbal interference in English, their categorization behavior is congruent with that predicted for German; when bilingual participants experience verbal interference in German, their categorization becomes congruent with that predicted for English. These findings show that language effects on cognition are context-bound and transient, revealing unprecedented levels of malleability in human cognition.
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页码:518 / 526
页数:9
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