Processing across the language boundary: A cross-modal priming study of Spanish-English bilinguals

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 846-864

  Hernandez, Arturo E ^a,b   Bates, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Avila, Luis X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030188746     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.4.846     Document Type: Article

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