中国心理语言学论坛

2013第二届中国心理语言学国际学术研讨会主旨发言1内容简介

主旨发言（1）：Coexistence of Chinese and English in one mind: effort or power?

Guillaume Thierry

School of Psychology, Bangor University

In this presentation I will explain how electrical activity recorded from the human scalp sheds light onto the cognitive mechanisms underlying bilingual processing and conceptual variations introduced by different languages. I will provide evidence for language non-selective lexical access in Chinese-English bilinguals during comprehension and production and I will present evidence for modulation of such access by the emotional valence of words. Pulling these examples together, I will suggest that event-related brain potentials are probably the best method available to date to investigate unconscious high-level mental operations.