False Memories in Native and Foreign Languages.

ABSTRACT: Human memory is prone to memory errors and distortion. Evidence from studies on cognitive functions in bilinguals indicates that they might be prone to different types of memory errors compared to monolinguals; however, the effect of language in false memories is still understudied. Source monitoring processes required for proper memory functioning, presumably, rely on inhibitory control, which is also heavily utilized by bilinguals. Moreover, it is suggested that thinking in a second language leads to more systematic and deliberate reasoning. All these results lead to expect that bilinguals are more analytical when processing information in their second language overcoming some memory errors depending on the language of information. To test this hypothesis, we run a classical misinformati

SUBMITTER: Dolgoarshinnaia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505984 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature