With this new study sample, the authors began by recruiting 18 monolingual citizens in the areas surrounding Pennsylvania University- a region wherein 85% of the population is white and about 10% speak a language that isn’t English. Follow-Up recruitment was enacted, helmed by then faculty author [UCI Distinguished Professor] Judith Kroll over in southern California. Kroll and her team recruited 16 monolingual English speaking individuals from a community wherein 35% of the surrounding country is Caucasian and 44% hold a primary language that is not English. With two diverse models in the chamber, the researchers chose Finnish to demonstrate their hypothesis.

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