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Bilingualism affects picture naming but not picture classification

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Gollan, Tanar H., Montoya, Rosa I., Fennema-Notestine, Christine, Morris, Shaunna K.·2005·Memory & Cognition

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Bilinguals named pictures in their dominant language more slowly (and with more errors) than did monolinguals. In contrast, bilinguals named the same pictures as quickly as did monolinguals on the fifth presentation (in Experiment 2) and classified them (as human made or natural) as quickly and accurately as did monolinguals (in Experiment 1). In addition, bilinguals retrieved English picture names more quickly if they knew the name in both Spanish and English (on the basis of a translation test that bilinguals completed after the timed tasks), and monolingual response times for the same materials suggested that this finding was not obtained simply because names that were easier to translate were easier in general. These findings suggest that bilinguals differ from monolinguals at a postconceptual processing level, that implicit activation of lexical representations in the nontarget language can facilitate retrieval in the target language, and that being bilingual is analogous to having a lexicon full of lower frequency words, relative to monolinguals.

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  • On tasks requiring picture naming, bilinguals respond more slowly and with lower accuracy than monolinguals.

    “On picture-naming tasks, bilingual participants are slower [25–28] and less accurate [29, 30] than monolinguals.”

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Authors
Gollan, T. H., Montoya, R. I., Fennema-Notestine, C., & Morris, S. K.
Affiliations
University of California San Diego (US)
Venue
Memory & Cognition
Published
2005-10
Volume
33
Issue
7
Pages
1220-1234
ISSN
  • 0090-502X (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-5946
OpenAlex
W2023637093
Cited by
565
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 29
FWCI
3.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Memory & Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Office of Research and Development
  • University of California, San Diego
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH64733, R01MH064733)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC-00191)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Keywords
bilingualism, picture naming, word retrieval, word frequency, reaction time (psychology), monolinguals
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psycholinguistics, Reaction Time, Mental Recall, Semantics, Verbal Learning, Vocabulary, Multilingualism

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