The study finds varying eye movements and neural activity in bilinguals acquiring novel words, suggesting orthographic features influence learning dynamics.
Key Points
Spanish-English bilinguals showed shorter fixations, indicating more automatic lexical encoding compared to Chinese-English bilinguals, who had prolonged attentional engagement.
Eye movement analyses revealed significant differences in neural responses between bilinguals with different first language orthographies, affecting novel word acquisition.
The study highlights how native language orthographic features shape neuroplasticity in learning new words, leading to varied neural strategies across bilinguals.
Post-training performance showed that Spanish bilinguals had greater gains in word learning after consolidation, linking exposure dynamics to learning outcomes.