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The impact of cross-language co-activation of cognates on bilingual performance on the reading span task.

The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis that cross-language activation of cognates significantly increases working memory capacity for bilingual readers. Highly proficient, Spanish–English bilinguals completed the reading span task (RST) in which participants made sentence plausibil...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1849 - 1865
Main Authors: Uribe, Diana, Schwartz, Ana I.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2025
Subjects:
Reading
Multilingualism
Psycholinguistics
Attention
Language disorders
Language arts
Memory
Judgment (Psychology)
Cognition
Research funding
Phonological awareness
Short-term memory
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