Bilingual Episodic Memory

Schrauf, Robert W.; Pavlenko, Aneta; Dewaele, Jean Marc

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“…3 Most of the current models of bilingual memory are essentially accounts of semantic memory whose goal is to explain bilingual lexical access to underlying imagistic and conceptual referents (Schrauf, Pavlenko, & Dewaele, 2003). Heredia and McLaughin (1992, p. 100) emphasize that it is not necessary to invent hypothetical memory systems, such as episodic and semantic memory.…”

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Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events

Filipović

2011

International Journal of Bilingualism

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The aim of this study is to test whether balanced English-Spanish bilingual speakers behave like monolinguals in each of their languages when describing and remembering complex motion events. The semantic domain in question is motion, because some components (namely the manner of motion) are more difficult to lexicalize in Spanish than in English because of typological constraints (see Filipovic´, 2007;Slobin, 1996Slobin, , 1997Talmy, 1985). As a result, performance on a recognition task involving motion verbs could be expected to vary depending on the language used in the experiment. English and Spanish monolinguals and bilinguals performed the recognition task. Results from the monolinguals indicate that there is a language effect based on this typological difference. Specifically, English monolingual speakers performed significantly better than their Spanish peers in the recognition task in both of our conditions, i.e., with verbalization and without verbalization. The bilingual results on the other hand strongly suggest that these speakers tend to adhere to a single lexicalization pattern that is acceptable in both languages, which is the Spanish one in this case. We discuss further implications of these results for language processing and for memory of motion events in general.

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Section: Bilingual Memorymentioning

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Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events

Filipović

2011

International Journal of Bilingualism

101

112

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“…A particular memory of a bilingual can come in a particular language, much the way a dream can come in a particular language (Marian & Neisser, 2000;Schrauf, 2000Schrauf, , 2003Schrauf, Pavlenko, & Dewaele, 2003;Schrauf & Rubin, 1998. The language of the memory is often not the language in which the memory testing is done, but is instead likely to be the language that was being used at the time of the event.…”

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The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory

Rubin

2006

Perspect Psychol Sci

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309

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Behavior, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging suggest that episodic memories are constructed from interactions among the following basic systems: vision, audition, olfaction, other senses, spatial imagery, language, emotion, narrative, motor output, explicit memory, and search and retrieval. Each system has its own well-documented functions, neural substrates, processes, structures, and kinds of schemata. However, the systems have not been considered as interacting components of episodic memory, as is proposed here. Autobiographical memory and oral traditions are used to demonstrate the usefulness of the basic-systems model in accounting for existing data and predicting novel findings, and to argue that the model, or one similar to it, is the only way to understand episodic memory for complex stimuli routinely encountered outside the laboratory.

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“…Clinical studies reviewed by Schrauf (2000) suggest that the language in use at retrieval facilitates access to memory content encoded in the same linguistic context. When autobiographical memories are recalled, they are retold using canonical narrative forms that are often language specific (Schrauf, Pavlenko, & Dewaele, 2003). Once one begins to retell a personal narrative, linguistic elements (e.g., morphology and semantics) may act as a series of successive retrieval cues eliciting more content of the recalled event .…”

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The language dependent recall effect influences the number of items recalled in autobiographical memory reports

Marsh

Kanaya

Pezdek

2015

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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This study investigated the influence of the language dependent recall effect on the number of memory items recalled in bilingual adults' autobiographical memories. Thirty-nine Spanish-English bilinguals were randomly assigned to receive task instructions and write one childhood memory (before age 10) and one recent memory (from the last five years) in either Spanish (Bi-Sp) or English (Bi-Eng). Twenty English monolinguals served as a control group. Memory items were coded by calculating the proportion of nouns, verbs, and adjectives relative to the total word count. When recalling childhood memories, but not recent memories Bi-Sp participants were more likely to experience a match between encoding and retrieval linguistic contexts than Bi-Eng participants. Consequently, Bi-Sp participants recalled a significantly greater proportion of nouns than Bi-Eng participants. In contrast, there were no significant differences in recent memories. These findings suggest that match between encoding and retrieval linguistic contexts afford better retrieval than a mismatch.

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Bilingual Episodic Memory

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events

Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events

The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory

The language dependent recall effect influences the number of items recalled in autobiographical memory reports

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