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.
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.
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.
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.
Abstract
This manuscript addresses the phenomenon of masked priming in bilingual individuals. We employed a lexical decision task with masked translation priming, which serves as a valuable tool for elucidating the orthographic and lexical processes involved in the initial stages of reading. Our study builds upon previous research conducted on monolingual masked priming, which consistently demonstrates shifts in the response time (RT) distributions when comparing related and unrelated primes. Within the framework of a diffusion model, we implemented two theoretical positions. First, we posited that translation priming operates at the orthographic level, resulting in enhanced efficiency during the encoding process. Second, we explored the possibility that translation priming operates at the semantic level, influencing the accumulation of evidence during the lexical decision task. Our findings indicate that translation priming elicits outcomes similar to those observed in monolingual priming paradigms. Specifically, we observed that translation priming facilitation is manifested as shifts in the RT distributions. We interpret these findings as suggesting that the benefits derived from the encoding process are not specific to the accessed lexicon following brief stimulus presentation.
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