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SUBMITTER: Zhang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710819 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zhang Shu S Morris Michael W MW Cheng Chi-Ying CY Yap Andy J AJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130617 28
For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting's cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for linguistic performance. The present studies investigate the proposal that heritage-culture cues hinder immigrants' second-language processing by priming first-language structures. For Chinese immigrants i ...[more]