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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2010 Sep 18;54(2):1476–1487. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.022

Table 2.

Reaction times and accuracy for English and Hindi words.

English Hindi
High Low High Low
Reaction time (seconds) Accuracy (%) Reaction time (seconds) Accuracy (%) Reaction time (seconds) Accuracy (%) Reaction time (seconds) Accuracy (%)
Monolingual English readers 0.65±0.02 99 0.68±0.03 99
Monolingual Hindi readers 0.64±0.08 100 0.66±0.09 100
Simultaneous bilingual readers 0.71±0.04 98 0.73±0.05 98 0.71±0.05 99 0.72±0.06 99
Sequential bilingual readers 0.75±0.06 96 *0.81±0.07 89 0.74±0.04 100 0.76±0.05 100
*

Significant differences seen when sequential readers were compared with monolingual English readers, (t9=−3.040, p<0.014) and simultaneous bilingual readers (t9=−2.87, p<0.018).