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Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles
Title
Imagery Skill and Preference in Bilinguals
ISBN or ISSN
0888-4080
Volume
5
Issue
2
Publication Date / Copyright Date
3-1991
First Page
97
Last Page
112
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI Number
10.1002/acp.2350050204
Abstract
A number of studies have reported differences in the performance of bilinguals and monolinguals in verbal tasks. It has been suggested that one source of this difference is a greater tendency among bilinguals to use non-verbal ways of representing events, because of the potential for confusions between their two verbal codes. In the present study, bilingual and monolingual college students were compared on three dimensions of self-reported aspects of imagery—control, vividness and preference—as well as on a performance measure of spatial manipulation skill. When these tasks were preceded by a nominally verbal activity (prose comprehension), there were no group differences on the self-report or objective imagery measures. In contrast, when they were preceded by an imagery rating task, some evidence of a compensatory reliance on spatial codes among bilinguals was obtained. Implications of these task induction effects on both subjective and performance measures of a skill were discussed.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
Bilinguals, Monolinguals, Verbal Tasks, Non-Verbal Representation, Control, Vividness, Preference, Spatial Skill
NSUWorks Citation
Ransdell, Sarah Ellen PhD and Fischler, Ira, "Imagery Skill and Preference in Bilinguals" (1991). Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles. 240.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_hs_facarticles/240