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Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently
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 te...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0064 |
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author | Fernandez-Duque, Matias Hayakawa, Sayuri Marian, Viorica |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-104317042023-08-17 Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently Fernandez-Duque, Matias Hayakawa, Sayuri Marian, Viorica Sci Adv Neuroscience 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. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10431704/ /pubmed/37585537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0064 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Fernandez-Duque, Matias Hayakawa, Sayuri Marian, Viorica Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title | Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title_full | Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title_fullStr | Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title_full_unstemmed | Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title_short | Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
title_sort | speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0064 |
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