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Guixiong Liu¹, Yujuan Wang², Yongping Jia³

¹Department of Psychology, Xinjiang Normal University, The Key Laboratory of Mental Development and Learning Science, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China; Beijing Key Laaboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.

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Summary

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Unitization enhances associative recognition by treating item pairs as single units. This effect aids cross-language retrieval in bilinguals, with familiarity

Keywords:

Familiarity L2 proficiency Recollection Unitization cross-language associative recognition

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Linguistics

Background:

The unitization effect describes how treating item pairs as a single entity enhances recognition.
Previous research indicates unitization is language-independent and applies to bilinguals' second language associative recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how familiarity influences cross-language associative retrieval under unitization.
To explore the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the unitization effect in bilinguals.

Main Methods:

Participants completed intralinguistic (Uygur-Uygur) and interlinguistic (Chinese-Uygur) study-test tasks.
Event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically FN400 and Late Positive Component (LPC), were measured.

Main Results:

During intralinguistic tasks, both FN400 and LPC were observed under unitization for all bilinguals; only LPC was seen without unitization.
During interlinguistic tasks, balanced bilinguals showed both FN400 and LPC with unitization, while unbalanced bilinguals showed only LPC.
Unitization facilitated familiarity's role in cross-language retrieval, mediated by second language proficiency.

Conclusions:

Unitization aids familiarity in supporting cross-language associative retrieval.
Second language proficiency is a key mediator in how familiarity impacts cross-language retrieval.
Neurophysiological evidence (FN400, LPC) supports the role of unitization and familiarity in bilingual associative recognition.