Did you see that? False memories for emotional words in bilingual children

Abstract When participants process a list of semantically strongly related words, the ones that were not presented may later be said, falsely, to have been on list. This ‘false memory effect’ has investigated by means DRM paradigm. We applied an emotional version it assess false effect for words in bilingual children with minority language as L1 (their mother tongue) and monolingual control group. found higher emotionality enhances distortion both children, spite disadvantage vocabulary skills socioeconomic status acts semantic processing independently from condition bilingualism. conclude develop their knowledge separately parallel peers, comparable role played Arousal Valence.