Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

Poster

Language Experience Modifies the Processing of Visual Input

Poster Session IX - Board: IX- 048
Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
River Exhibition Hall

Sarah A. Chabal
Northwestern University

Viorica Marian
Northwestern University

Monolinguals and bilinguals completed a visual search task in which no overt linguistic information was provided (i.e., all cues were pictorial). Eye-tracking revealed that phonologically overlapping items garnered more looks. Results demonstrate that visual input is sufficient to activate linguistic representations, and that language experience modifies processing of visual stimuli.

Subject Area: Cognitive
Keywords: Language