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It was predicted that recognition memory for items from bilingual lists would be superior to that from unilingual lists. Each of 72 bilingual subjects, fluent in English and French, was tested on two unilingual and two bilingual lists. Each list involved a study phase of 20 targets and a test phase of these and 20 distractors. A signal-detection analysis revealed a significantly larger ď value for the bilingual than for the unilingual treatment.
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Support for this research was received under National Research Council of Canada Grant APA-78. The authors are indebted to Joan McCormack for computer programming as well as to H. P. Edwards and R. Vaillancourt, both of the University of Ottawa, for kindly providing access to subjects. They also wish to thank the 10 bilingual adult translators, all of whom were former neighbours of the senior author.
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McCormack, P.D., Colletta, S.P. Recognition memory for items from unilingual and bilingual lists. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 149–151 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333175
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