Unconscious effects of grammatical gender during object categorisation

B Boutonnet, P Athanasopoulos, G Thierry - Brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
Does language modulate perception and categorisation of everyday objects? Here, we
approach this question from the perspective of grammatical gender in bilinguals. We tested …

Grammatical gender in German: A case for linguistic relativity?

A Bender, S Beller, KC Klauer - Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The “principle of linguistic relativity” holds that, by way of grammatical categorization,
language affects the conceptual representations of its speakers. Formal gender systems are …

On the semantic content of grammatical gender and its impact on the representation of human referents

L Irmen, J Kurovskaja - Experimental Psychology, 2010 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Grammatical gender has been shown to provide natural gender information about human
referents. However, due to formal and conceptual differences between masculine and …

Broca's area in the human brain is involved in the selection of grammatical gender for language production: evidence from event-related functional magnetic …

ST Heim, B Opitz, AD Friederici - Neuroscience letters, 2002 - Elsevier
The neural correlates of the selection of grammatical gender during overt picture naming
were investigated by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging in the left …

Do Spanish–English bilinguals have their fingers in two pies–or is it their toes? An electrophysiological investigation of semantic access in bilinguals

N Hoshino, G Thierry - Frontiers in psychology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
We examined the time course of cross-language activation during word recognition in the
context of semantic priming with interlingual homographs. Spanish–English bilinguals were …

Grammatical gender effects on cognition: implications for language learning and language use.

G Vigliocco, DP Vinson, F Paganelli… - Journal of …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
In 4 experiments, the authors addressed the mechanisms by which grammatical gender (in
Italian and German) may come to affect meaning. In Experiments 1 (similarity judgments) …

Processing grammatical gender during language comprehension

AD Friederici, T Jacobsen - Journal of psycholinguistic Research, 1999 - Springer
The paper reviews empirical evidence on the processing of grammatical gender during
language comprehension, mainly focusing on gender priming. Evidence comes from …

The gender congruency effect during bilingual spoken-word recognition

L Morales, D Paolieri, PE Dussias, JRV Kroff… - Bilingualism …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We investigate the 'gender-congruency'effect during a spoken-word recognition task using
the visual world paradigm. Eye movements of Italian–Spanish bilinguals and Spanish …

On language and thought: Bilingual experience influences semantic associations

S Ning, S Hayakawa, J Bartolotti, V Marian - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Language can influence cognition in domains as varied as temporal processing,
spatial categorization, and color perception (Casasanto & Boroditsky, 2008; Levinson & …

Meaning first: A case for language-independent access to word meaning in the bilingual brain

S Ng, NYY Wicha - Neuropsychologia, 2013 - Elsevier
This study aimed to determine how deeply a word is processed in the bilingual brain before
the word's language membership plays a role in lexical selection. In two ERP experiments …