?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Cross-language+hierarchical+spreading+of+activation&rft.creator=Samani%2C+R.&rft.creator=Sharifian%2C+F.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=The+present+study+investigated+whether+in+bilingual+memory%2C+activation+of+a+node+in+a+lexicon%2C+through+presentation+of+the+relevant+word+stimulus%2C+would+spread+to+a+lower+node+in+the+other+lexicon.+Two+experiments+examined+the+priming+effect+of+a+higher+node+in+one+lexicon+on+the+task+of+translation+of+a+lower+node+in+the+other+lexicon.+In+Experiment+1%2C+the+primed+words+representing+higher+nodes+were+from+subjects'+L1+and+to-be-translated+target+words+representing+lower+nodes+were+from+subjects'+L2.+In+Experiment+2%2C+the+order+of+languages+was+reversed.+In+both+experiments%2C+the+primed+translation+condition+was+compared+with+an+un-primed+translation+condition.+The+results+showed+a+facilitatory+effect+for+the+L2+prime-L1+target+(L1-to-L2+translation)+condition.+The+result+of+L1+prime-L2+target%0A(L2-to-L1+translation)+condition%2C+however%2C+did+not+reach+significance.+The+RT+difference+between+L1-to-L2+and+L2-to-L1+translation+tasks+in+the+un-primed+conditions+was+not+significant.&rft.publisher=IAU+Press&rft.contributor=Sharifian%2C+F.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1663%2F1%2Fact2.htm&rft.identifier=++Samani%2C+R.+and+Sharifian%2C+F.++(1997)+Cross-language+hierarchical+spreading+of+activation.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1663%2F