Katarzyna Jankowiak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1123868 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katarzyna Jankowiak |
| NOMBRES | Katarzyna |
| APELLIDO | Jankowiak |
| FIRMA | JANKOWIAK K |
| AFILIACIONES | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1200-9347 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The impact of orthography versus images on foreign language learning
A central question in foreign language (LX) learning is how vocabulary acquisition is affected by using image versus orthographic referents. According to the picture superiority effect (PSE) and bilingual/dual coding theory (b/DCT), images should lead to better novel word encoding and retrieval. We tested this prediction using behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measures. Thirty Polish native speakers learned 40 LX (artificial language) …
The psychophysiology of interpreting emotional language in the audiovisual modality
Recent decades have shown a growing interest in the psychophysiological aspects of interpreting. Among various methods employed to study the process of interpreting, electrodermal activity (EDA) and cardiac measurements have gained prominence, particularly in the context of affective processing. Recent EDA research has suggested that interpreters respond to the affective content present in the source language (Korpal & Jankowiak, 2021; Korpal & J…
Can personality affect grammatical processing? Tolerance of ambiguity and relative clause attachment in multilingual speakers
While grammatical processing has been extensively examined across languages, relatively few studies have linked it to psychological variables such as personality. We propose that one relevant trait, Tolerance of Ambiguity (TA), reflecting comfort with uncertainty and multiple interpretations, may predict how structural ambiguity is resolved during grammatical processing. We investigate the interpretation of ambiguous relative clauses in L2 Englis…
Neural markers reveal weakened sensitivity to moral violations in a foreign language
While previous bilingualism research has consistently demonstrated that moral decision-making is modulated by the language of operation, it remains unclear how bilinguals process morally charged linguistic content when explicit moral evaluation is not required. In the present event-related potential study, Polish-English bilinguals performed a semantic decision task involving native (L1) and foreign (L2) sentences that either conformed to or viol…
Bilinguals in social and emotional contexts
Purpose: The study offers insights into the interplay between mood and the language of operation in the context of stereotype judgements in female bilinguals. Methodology: Participants were presented with gender stereotypically congruent and incongruent sentences in their L1 (Polish) and L2 (English). They performed a stereotype congruency judgement task while their behavioural responses were being recorded. Data and analysis: The speed and accur…
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing
Metaphor processing has been mostly researched using the space–valence paradigm, where participants respond to either space–valence congruent or incongruent stimuli. Little attention has, however, been devoted to the role of valence–space associations in bilingual orientational metaphor comprehension. Here, we employed a reaction time method and tested Polish (L1) – English (L2) highly proficient bilinguals, who performed a metaphoricity judgment…
Brain potentials reveal reduced sensitivity to negative content during second language production
Prior research suggests that bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to negative content when operating in the second language (L2). The available evidence, however, is limited to language comprehension. We tested the production of emotional words in Polish (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals in two EEG studies that manipulated emotional cueing. In Experiment 1 (neutral context), white or black circles indicated whether participants should read aloud (shado…
Bilingual speakers are less sensitive to gender stereotypes in their foreign language
Little is known about the interplay between the language of operation and gender stereotype processing. In this study, Polish–English (L1–L2) male and female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 stereotypically congruent and incongruent as well as semantically correct and incorrect sentences. The results showed gender- and language-dependent modulations by sentence type within the N400 and Late Positive Complex (LPC) time frames.…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Electrophysiological insights into the role of proficiency in bilingual novel and conventional metaphor processing
While novel and conventional metaphor comprehension has received much attention in the monolingual context, thus far little electrophysiological research has been conducted with a view to examining how bilingual speakers process metaphors in their non-native language (L2) as well as how L2 proficiency level might modulate such processes. The present study aims to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of novel and conventional metaphor c…
Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals
Aims and objectives: We aimed to explore the relationship between mood and emotional word processing in the bilingual context, as modulated by participants’ gender. Methodology: We presented mood-inducing film clips to 28 female and 28 male unbalanced Polish–English bilinguals to put them in positive and negative moods. Participants were asked to decide if native language (L1) and non-native language (L2) single words were positive, negative, or …
Positive and negative moods differently affect creative meaning processing in both the native and non-native language
Previous research has shown that positive and negative moods differently modulate lexico-semantic processes. However, little is known about effects of mood on creative meaning comprehension in bilinguals. Here, Polish-English (L1-L2) female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 novel metaphoric, literal, and anomalous sentences during an EEG session featuring positive and negative mood induction. While novel metaphors elicited com…
Metaphors are like lenses
Aims and objectives: The study provides new insights into how bilingual speakers process semantically complex novel meanings in their native (L1) and non-native language (L2). Methodology: The study employs an EEG method with a semantic decision task to novel nominal metaphors, novel similes, as well as literal and anomalous sentences presented in participants’ L1 and L2. Data and analysis: In total, 29 native speakers of Polish (L1) who were hig…
Teaching & learning guide for
Current trends in electrophysiological research on bilingual language processing
Recently, much psycholinguistic research has been devoted to examining cognitive mechanisms engaged in language processing in the bilingual context, as this might provide in-depth insights into how different languages interact with one another as well as how and to what extent language competence affects cognition. At the same time, along with such a growing interest in studying bilingual populations, psycholinguistics as a discipline has been ra…
Modality matters
Prior irony research has primarily explored how people comprehend written irony in their first language (L1). Nowadays, however, people often communicate in their second (L2) language, and additionally, irony may be communicated multimodally, i.e., in the textual (reading), auditory (listening), or audio-visual (watching) modality. Hence, communicators need to be able to understand ironic intent in all these modalities, and in both linguistic sys…
Normative Data for Novel Nominal Metaphors, Novel Similes, Literal, and Anomalous Utterances in Polish and English
The two studies reported in the article provide normative measures for 120 novel nominal metaphors, 120 novel similes, 120 literal sentences, and 120 anomalous utterances in Polish (Study 1) and in English (Study 2). The presented set is ideally suited to addressing methodological requirements in research on metaphor processing. The critical (sentence-final) words of each utterance were controlled for in terms of their frequency per million, numb…
Physiological and self-report measures in emotion studies
Investigating human emotions empirically is still considered to be challenging, mostly due to the questionable validity of the results obtained when employing individual types of measures. Among the most frequently used methods to study emotional reactions are self-report, autonomic, neurophysiological, and behavioral measures. Importantly, previous studies on emotional responding have rarely triangulated the aforementioned research methods. In t…
On Modality Effects in Bilingual Emotional Language Processing
Though previous research has shown a decreased sensitivity to emotionally-laden linguistic stimuli presented in the non-native (L2) compared to the native language (L1), studies conducted thus far have not examined how different modalities influence bilingual emotional language processing. The present experiment was therefore aimed at investigating how late proficient Polish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals process emotionally-laden narratives presen…
On Modality Effects in Bilingual Emotional Language Processing
Though previous research has shown a decreased sensitivity to emotionally-laden linguistic stimuli presented in the non-native (L2) compared to the native language (L1), studies conducted thus far have not examined how different modalities influence bilingual emotional language processing. The present experiment was therefore aimed at investigating how late proficient Polish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals process emotionally-laden narratives presen…
Modality matters
Prior irony research has primarily explored how people comprehend written irony in their first language (L1). Nowadays, however, people often communicate in their second (L2) language, and additionally, irony may be communicated multimodally, i.e., in the textual (reading), auditory (listening), or audio-visual (watching) modality. Hence, communicators need to be able to understand ironic intent in all these modalities, and in both linguistic sys…
Brain potentials reveal reduced sensitivity to negative content during second language production
Prior research suggests that bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to negative content when operating in the second language (L2). The available evidence, however, is limited to language comprehension. We tested the production of emotional words in Polish (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals in two EEG studies that manipulated emotional cueing. In Experiment 1 (neutral context), white or black circles indicated whether participants should read aloud (shado…
Bilingual speakers are less sensitive to gender stereotypes in their foreign language
Little is known about the interplay between the language of operation and gender stereotype processing. In this study, Polish–English (L1–L2) male and female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 stereotypically congruent and incongruent as well as semantically correct and incorrect sentences. The results showed gender- and language-dependent modulations by sentence type within the N400 and Late Positive Complex (LPC) time frames.…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
Current trends in electrophysiological research on bilingual language processing
Recently, much psycholinguistic research has been devoted to examining cognitive mechanisms engaged in language processing in the bilingual context, as this might provide in-depth insights into how different languages interact with one another as well as how and to what extent language competence affects cognition. At the same time, along with such a growing interest in studying bilingual populations, psycholinguistics as a discipline has been ra…
Normative Data for Novel Nominal Metaphors, Novel Similes, Literal, and Anomalous Utterances in Polish and English
The two studies reported in the article provide normative measures for 120 novel nominal metaphors, 120 novel similes, 120 literal sentences, and 120 anomalous utterances in Polish (Study 1) and in English (Study 2). The presented set is ideally suited to addressing methodological requirements in research on metaphor processing. The critical (sentence-final) words of each utterance were controlled for in terms of their frequency per million, numb…
On Modality Effects in Bilingual Emotional Language Processing
Though previous research has shown a decreased sensitivity to emotionally-laden linguistic stimuli presented in the non-native (L2) compared to the native language (L1), studies conducted thus far have not examined how different modalities influence bilingual emotional language processing. The present experiment was therefore aimed at investigating how late proficient Polish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals process emotionally-laden narratives presen…
Physiological and self-report measures in emotion studies
Investigating human emotions empirically is still considered to be challenging, mostly due to the questionable validity of the results obtained when employing individual types of measures. Among the most frequently used methods to study emotional reactions are self-report, autonomic, neurophysiological, and behavioral measures. Importantly, previous studies on emotional responding have rarely triangulated the aforementioned research methods. In t…
Normative Data for Novel Nominal Metaphors, Novel Similes, Literal, and Anomalous Utterances in Polish and English
The two studies reported in the article provide normative measures for 120 novel nominal metaphors, 120 novel similes, 120 literal sentences, and 120 anomalous utterances in Polish (Study 1) and in English (Study 2). The presented set is ideally suited to addressing methodological requirements in research on metaphor processing. The critical (sentence-final) words of each utterance were controlled for in terms of their frequency per million, numb…
Metaphors are like lenses
Aims and objectives: The study provides new insights into how bilingual speakers process semantically complex novel meanings in their native (L1) and non-native language (L2). Methodology: The study employs an EEG method with a semantic decision task to novel nominal metaphors, novel similes, as well as literal and anomalous sentences presented in participants’ L1 and L2. Data and analysis: In total, 29 native speakers of Polish (L1) who were hig…
Teaching & learning guide for
Current trends in electrophysiological research on bilingual language processing
Recently, much psycholinguistic research has been devoted to examining cognitive mechanisms engaged in language processing in the bilingual context, as this might provide in-depth insights into how different languages interact with one another as well as how and to what extent language competence affects cognition. At the same time, along with such a growing interest in studying bilingual populations, psycholinguistics as a discipline has been ra…
Modality matters
Prior irony research has primarily explored how people comprehend written irony in their first language (L1). Nowadays, however, people often communicate in their second (L2) language, and additionally, irony may be communicated multimodally, i.e., in the textual (reading), auditory (listening), or audio-visual (watching) modality. Hence, communicators need to be able to understand ironic intent in all these modalities, and in both linguistic sys…
Positive and negative moods differently affect creative meaning processing in both the native and non-native language
Previous research has shown that positive and negative moods differently modulate lexico-semantic processes. However, little is known about effects of mood on creative meaning comprehension in bilinguals. Here, Polish-English (L1-L2) female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 novel metaphoric, literal, and anomalous sentences during an EEG session featuring positive and negative mood induction. While novel metaphors elicited com…
Electrophysiological insights into the role of proficiency in bilingual novel and conventional metaphor processing
While novel and conventional metaphor comprehension has received much attention in the monolingual context, thus far little electrophysiological research has been conducted with a view to examining how bilingual speakers process metaphors in their non-native language (L2) as well as how L2 proficiency level might modulate such processes. The present study aims to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of novel and conventional metaphor c…
Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals
Aims and objectives: We aimed to explore the relationship between mood and emotional word processing in the bilingual context, as modulated by participants’ gender. Methodology: We presented mood-inducing film clips to 28 female and 28 male unbalanced Polish–English bilinguals to put them in positive and negative moods. Participants were asked to decide if native language (L1) and non-native language (L2) single words were positive, negative, or …
Bilinguals in social and emotional contexts
Purpose: The study offers insights into the interplay between mood and the language of operation in the context of stereotype judgements in female bilinguals. Methodology: Participants were presented with gender stereotypically congruent and incongruent sentences in their L1 (Polish) and L2 (English). They performed a stereotype congruency judgement task while their behavioural responses were being recorded. Data and analysis: The speed and accur…
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing
Metaphor processing has been mostly researched using the space–valence paradigm, where participants respond to either space–valence congruent or incongruent stimuli. Little attention has, however, been devoted to the role of valence–space associations in bilingual orientational metaphor comprehension. Here, we employed a reaction time method and tested Polish (L1) – English (L2) highly proficient bilinguals, who performed a metaphoricity judgment…
Brain potentials reveal reduced sensitivity to negative content during second language production
Prior research suggests that bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to negative content when operating in the second language (L2). The available evidence, however, is limited to language comprehension. We tested the production of emotional words in Polish (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals in two EEG studies that manipulated emotional cueing. In Experiment 1 (neutral context), white or black circles indicated whether participants should read aloud (shado…
Bilingual speakers are less sensitive to gender stereotypes in their foreign language
Little is known about the interplay between the language of operation and gender stereotype processing. In this study, Polish–English (L1–L2) male and female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 stereotypically congruent and incongruent as well as semantically correct and incorrect sentences. The results showed gender- and language-dependent modulations by sentence type within the N400 and Late Positive Complex (LPC) time frames.…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
The impact of orthography versus images on foreign language learning
A central question in foreign language (LX) learning is how vocabulary acquisition is affected by using image versus orthographic referents. According to the picture superiority effect (PSE) and bilingual/dual coding theory (b/DCT), images should lead to better novel word encoding and retrieval. We tested this prediction using behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measures. Thirty Polish native speakers learned 40 LX (artificial language) …
The psychophysiology of interpreting emotional language in the audiovisual modality
Recent decades have shown a growing interest in the psychophysiological aspects of interpreting. Among various methods employed to study the process of interpreting, electrodermal activity (EDA) and cardiac measurements have gained prominence, particularly in the context of affective processing. Recent EDA research has suggested that interpreters respond to the affective content present in the source language (Korpal & Jankowiak, 2021; Korpal & J…
Can personality affect grammatical processing? Tolerance of ambiguity and relative clause attachment in multilingual speakers
While grammatical processing has been extensively examined across languages, relatively few studies have linked it to psychological variables such as personality. We propose that one relevant trait, Tolerance of Ambiguity (TA), reflecting comfort with uncertainty and multiple interpretations, may predict how structural ambiguity is resolved during grammatical processing. We investigate the interpretation of ambiguous relative clauses in L2 Englis…
Neural markers reveal weakened sensitivity to moral violations in a foreign language
While previous bilingualism research has consistently demonstrated that moral decision-making is modulated by the language of operation, it remains unclear how bilinguals process morally charged linguistic content when explicit moral evaluation is not required. In the present event-related potential study, Polish-English bilinguals performed a semantic decision task involving native (L1) and foreign (L2) sentences that either conformed to or viol…
Psychology (14 obras) · Cognition (12 obras) · Cognitive psychology (12 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 obras) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Comprehension (5 obras) · N400 (5 obras)