TY - JOUR
T1 - Detecting concealed language knowledge via response times
AU - Lukács, Gáspár
AU - Kawai, Claudia
AU - Ansorge, Ulrich
AU - Fekete, Anna
N1 - Funding Information:
Research funding: Gáspár Lukács has been funded by the OeAW Post-DocTrack Program (grant number: 85065). Claudia Kawai is a recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology at the University of Vienna (grant number: 25068). Additional research grants were provided by the University of Vienna (Förderungsstipendium, JUWI fellowship to C.K.). These funding sources had no role or involvement related to this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Gáspár Lukács et al., published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
PY - 2023/7/1
Y1 - 2023/7/1
N2 - In the present study, we introduce a response-time-based test that can be used to detect concealed language knowledge, for various potential applications (e.g., espionage, border control, counter-terrorism). In this test, the examinees are asked to respond to repeatedly presented items, including a real word in the language tested (suspected to be known by the examinee) and several pseudowords. A person who understands the tested language recognizes the real word and tends to have slower responses to it as compared to the pseudowords, and, thereby, can be distinguished from those who do not understand the language. This was demonstrated in a series of experiments including diverse participants tested for their native language (German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian; n = 312), for second language (English, German; n = 66), and several control groups (n = 192).
AB - In the present study, we introduce a response-time-based test that can be used to detect concealed language knowledge, for various potential applications (e.g., espionage, border control, counter-terrorism). In this test, the examinees are asked to respond to repeatedly presented items, including a real word in the language tested (suspected to be known by the examinee) and several pseudowords. A person who understands the tested language recognizes the real word and tends to have slower responses to it as compared to the pseudowords, and, thereby, can be distinguished from those who do not understand the language. This was demonstrated in a series of experiments including diverse participants tested for their native language (German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian; n = 312), for second language (English, German; n = 66), and several control groups (n = 192).
KW - MEMORY
KW - METAANALYSIS
KW - PROBE
KW - SENSITIVITY
KW - concealed information test
KW - deception
KW - language
KW - linguistic profiling
KW - response time
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116540874&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/applirev-2020-0130
DO - 10.1515/applirev-2020-0130
M3 - Article
SN - 1868-6303
VL - 14
SP - 1027
EP - 1044
JO - Applied Linguistics Review
JF - Applied Linguistics Review
IS - 4
ER -