A Psycholinguistic Paradigm of Dual Information Processing in Social Cognition

Dual-processing accounts of reasoning, judgment, and social cognition.

This article reviews a diverse set of proposals for dual processing in higher cognition within largely disconnected literatures in cognitive and social psychology. All these theories have in common the distinction between cognitive processes that are fast, automatic, and unconscious and those that are slow, deliberative, and conscious. A number of authors have recently suggested that there may ...

Collocational Processing in Two Languages: A psycholinguistic comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals

With the renewed interest in the field of second language learning for the knowledge of collocating words, research findings in favour of holistic processing of formulaic language could support the idea that these language units facilitate efficient language processing. This study investigated the difference between processing of a first language (L1) and a second language (L2) of congruent col...

Psycholinguistic Evidence for Laterality Preferences and Information Processing in Japanese *

The human brain exhibits hemispheric differences in information processing functions, and this fact of laterality preferences is reflected in language processing functions which involve lexical access and written word recognition in Japanese. This paper evaluates the Japanese psycholinguistic literature in the areas of experimental psychology and clinical aphasiology in an attempt to ascertain ...

Specifying social cognitive processes with a social dual-task paradigm

Automatic imitation tasks measuring motor priming effects showed that we directly map observed actions of other agents onto our own motor repertoire (direct matching). A recent joint action study using a social dual-task paradigm provided evidence for task monitoring. In the present study, we aimed to test (a) if automatic imitation is disturbed during joint action and (b) if task monitoring is...

Annual Review of Psychology (2008, in press) DUAL-PROCESSING ACCOUNTS OF REASONING, JUDGMENT AND SOCIAL COGNITION