Golan then asked a group of participants to name the same
picture in different blocks, across five different blocks, and
if you repeat the same picture five times, people get faster and faster.
The biggest jump in speed is after the,
from the first to the second, it's called, it's called repetition priming.
It's a very robust effect.
People have found that if you repeat a stimulus,
bring people into the lab, show them some stimuli,
have them come back 30 days later, there's still an effect of repetition.
Such that items that they saw 30 days ago are faster than items they see for
the first time at day 30.
So there's a huge jump from the first to the second presentation for Golan and
then a little bit of an increase but not much across subsequent presentations.
The monolinguals show the same effect except they're always faster.
And even after five presentations of the same picture the bilinguals are never
identical to the monolinguals.
Suggesting again, that in a single language there's a bit of a slow down for
bilinguals relative to monolinguals.