The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.

• Main Author: Teo, Sarah Jia Yin.
• Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Bilingualism
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43838
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Research on to the cognitive differences in bilinguals, of languages with similar historical backgrounds, and monolinguals has been ongoing. This study investigated if these established differences, in the working memory, can be extrapolated to a language pair that is dissimilar historically, and to...