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    Does using a foreign language reduce mental imagery?
    with Guillermo Montero-Melis, Jeroen van Paridon, and Markus Ostarek
    Cognition 196 (C): 104134. 2020.
    In a recent article, Hayakawa and Keysar (2018) propose that mental imagery is less vivid when evoked in a foreign than in a native language. The authors argue that reduced mental imagery could even account for moral foreign language effects, whereby moral choices become more utilitarian when made in a foreign language. Here we demonstrate that Hayakawa and Keysar's (2018) key results are better explained by reduced language comprehension in a foreign language than by less vivid imagery. We argu…Read more