During the last two decades, bilingual research has adopted the masked translation priming paradigm as a tool to investigate the architecture of the bilingual language system. Although there is now a consensus about the existence of forward translation priming (from native language primes [L1] to second language [L2] translation equivalent targets), the backward translation priming effect (from...

One of the most ubiquitous examples of stress-induced analgesia that is easily observed is the pain reduction athletes experience during competition. There is anecdotal evidence for this phenomenon but there is an omission in the literature of conclusive systematic investigations of athletes' responses to noxious stimuli under competitive stress. The purpose of the present study was to examine ...