An Evidence Accumulation Account of Masked Translation Priming in Two Bilingual Populations
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Masked Priming as Savings
1.2. Cross-Language Inhibitory Effects
1.3. Perceptual Accumulation Models
1.4. Overview of the Experiments
2. Experiment 1
2.1. Methods
2.1.1. Participants
2.1.2. Materials
Target Items
Primes
2.1.3. Procedure
2.1.4. Data Analysis
2.2. Results
2.3. Distributional Analyses
3. Experiment 2
3.1. Method
3.1.1. Participants
3.1.2. Procedure
3.1.3. Data Analysis
3.2. Results
3.3. Distributional Analyses
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
- The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:
RT Response Time DDM Drift-Diffusion Model SOA Stimulus Onset Asynchrony
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Type of Priming | Prime | Target |
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Identity Cognate: Translation prime with an orthographically identical word | doctor | DOCTOR |
Non-identity Cognate: Translation primes that are orthographically similar but not identical | sal | SALT |
Non-cognate: Translation primes that are not orthographically similar | silla | CHAIR |
Unrelated: Non translation | casa | PLATE |
Translation Prime | Unrelated Control | Difference | ||||
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Unrelated-Translation | ||||||
Type of Translation Prime | Mean RT | Mean Accurarcy | Mean RT | Mean Accurarcy | RT | Accuracy |
Identity Cognate | 643 | 0.941 | 714 | 0.958 | 61 | 0.017 |
Non-identity Cognate | 695 | 0.929 | 730 | 0.907 | 35 | −0.022 |
Non-cognate | 732 | 0.867 | 741 | 0.861 | 9 | −0.006 |
Translation Prime | Unrelated Control | Difference | ||||
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Unrelated-Translation | ||||||
Type of Translation Prime | Mean RT | Mean Accurarcy | Mean RT | Mean Accurarcy | RT | Accuracy |
Identity Cognate | 675 | 0.980 | 696 | 0.957 | 21 | −0.023 |
Non-identity Cognate | 687 | 0.944 | 716 | 0.924 | 29 | −0.020 |
Non-cognate | 687 | 0.940 | 699 | 0.943 | 12 | 0.003 |
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Scrimshire, C.; Amador, S.A.; Aldariz, A.G.-G.; Meza, G.; Gomez, P. An Evidence Accumulation Account of Masked Translation Priming in Two Bilingual Populations. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13071066
Scrimshire C, Amador SA, Aldariz AG-G, Meza G, Gomez P. An Evidence Accumulation Account of Masked Translation Priming in Two Bilingual Populations. Brain Sciences. 2023; 13(7):1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13071066
Chicago/Turabian StyleScrimshire, Camille, Sara Alicia Amador, Andrea González-García Aldariz, Galilea Meza, and Pablo Gomez. 2023. "An Evidence Accumulation Account of Masked Translation Priming in Two Bilingual Populations" Brain Sciences 13, no. 7: 1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13071066
APA StyleScrimshire, C., Amador, S. A., Aldariz, A. G.-G., Meza, G., & Gomez, P. (2023). An Evidence Accumulation Account of Masked Translation Priming in Two Bilingual Populations. Brain Sciences, 13(7), 1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13071066