False Memories in Bilingual Speakers

Graves, Donald F.; Altarriba, Jeanette

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“…After reviewing the available articles investigating false memories in L1 versus L2, an issue that still seems unclear is whether participants translated L2 words during task performance (see Graves and Altarriba, 2014). Thus, further research could clarify this issue by manipulating the presentation rate of studied items or the time available during retrieval.…”

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“…Different questions have been investigated in the literature regarding false memories in various languages. First, some research has focused on false memories when languages are switched between encoding and retrieval (i.e., between-language false memory) (see Graves and Altarriba, 2014 for review). Second, another line of research has been interested in whether language and memory processes differ between bilinguals and monolinguals (e.g., Bialystok et al, 2020).…”

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The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review

Suarez

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2021

Front. Psychol.

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Memory errors and, specifically, false memories in the Deese/Roediger–McDermott paradigm have been extensively studied in the past decades. Most studies have investigated false memory in monolinguals’ native or first language (L1), but interest has also grown in examining false memories in participants’ second language (L2) with different proficiency levels. The main purpose of this manuscript is to review the current state of knowledge on the role of language proficiency on false memories when participants encode and retrieve information in the same language. To do so, a systematic literature search was conducted, and the available studies were reviewed. These studies differed in, for example, age, language proficiency, or material characteristics, including both high and low associative strength lists, and they reported different results. In this review, we attempted to make sense of the apparently contradictory results by carefully identifying participants’ language dominance and L2 proficiency. Specifically, the results indicated that, first, people are more prone to produce false memories in their dominant than in their non-dominant language. This result generalizes to lists with high and low associative strength, as well as to participants of different ages. Second, false memories do not differ between two languages when speakers are equally proficient in both languages. Finally, highly proficient L2 speakers produce more false memories in their L2 than speakers with lower L2 proficiency. The results of this review will be considered in the light of the theoretical frameworks of false memories and bilingual language processing.

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The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review

Suarez

Beato

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Declarative memory is traditionally split up between episodic and semantic memory. While semantic memory contains the gist of information about the world, episodic memory contains contextual information tied to the stored event (e.g., Graves & Altarriba, 2014). Information that is processed can be transferred from episodic to semantic long-term memory, in which the contextual information is lost.…”

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Studying texts in a second language: No disadvantage in long-term recognition memory

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Despite an increase in bilingualism and the use of English as a medium of instruction, little research has been done on bilingual memory for learnt information. In a previous study, we found an L2 recall cost but equal recognition performance in L2 versus L1 when students studied short expository texts (Vander Beken & Brysbaert, 2017). In this paper, we investigate whether there is a recognition cost after a longer delay, which would indicate that the memory trace is weaker in L2. Results showed equal performance in L1 and L2, suggesting that the recall cost is either located at the production level, or that the levels-of-processing effect is mediated by language, with unaffected surface encoding leading to effectivemarginal knowledgeon the one hand, and hampered deep encoding leading to ineffective (uncued) recall. This paper also contains the Dutch vocabulary test we used for native speakers.

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“…Given that translated lists usually elicit weaker associative relationships between studied items and critical lures (Graves & Altarriba, 2014), we used different DRM lists for this experiment. We took the 16 DRM word lists that elicited the highest false recognition rates in Stadler et al's (1999) study (see Supplementary Material B).…”

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Foreign accents reduce false recognition rates in the DRM paradigm

Romero-Rivas

Thorley

Skelton

et al. 2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Highlights • The DRM paradigm was used to explore whether semantic activation is reduced when processing foreign-accented speech. • Across two experiments, false recognition of non-studied semantic associates was lower when word lists were presented in a foreign accent, compared to native speech. • The above results suggest semantic activation may be reduced when processing foreign-accented speech. • Additionally, it was found that when the foreign speaker had a mild accent, correct recall of studied words was uninfluenced. If the foreign speaker had a strong accent, however, correct recall of studied words was reduced.

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False Memories in Bilingual Speakers

Cited by 13 publications

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The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review

The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review

Studying texts in a second language: No disadvantage in long-term recognition memory

Foreign accents reduce false recognition rates in the DRM paradigm

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