Cognition & Emotion · 2007 · 163 citations · 29 references
MultilingualismAffective NeuroscienceLanguage InterferenceSelective AttentionPsycholinguisticsSpanish PragmaticsAttentionEmotional Stroop EffectsSocial SciencesEmotional ResponseBilingualismLanguage StudiesCognitive ScienceAutomatic AccessSpanish–english Bilingual SpeakersEmotional Stroop TaskBilingual EducationEmotional InformationLanguage PerceptionEmotionSpanishLinguisticsEmotion Recognition
The emotional Stroop task is an experimental measure of selective attention to emotional information, and its findings are discussed in relation to prior research on bilingual emotion word representation. The study examined the emotional Stroop effect in Spanish–English bilingual speakers. The study found that the emotional Stroop effect is robust and replicable in bilinguals, with highly proficient bilinguals showing equal interference in both languages, indicating automatic activation of emotional components across languages.
The emotional Stroop task provides an experimental measure of selective attention to emotional information. In the current study, the emotional Stroop effect was examined in a Spanish–English bilingual speaking population. The results revealed that the emotional Stroop effect is a robust phenomenon and replicable within a bilingual population. Furthermore, highly proficient bilinguals demonstrated equal interference effects in both their first language and their second language. The current study provides evidence of the automatic activation of emotional components in words appearing in more than one language. These results are discussed with reference to previous findings in the literature on bilingual emotion word representation.
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