Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Shu, MORRIS, Michael W., CHENG, Chi-Ying, YAP, Andy J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: bilingual; cultural psychology; cognitive activation; cross-language interference; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1408; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2664/viewcontent/PNAS_2013_Zhang_1304435110.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting’s cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for ling...