Lateralization of emotion word in the first and second language: Evidence from Turkish-English bilinguals

As interest in cognitive sciences has grown over the years, language representation brain increasingly become subject of psycholinguistic studies. In contrast to relatively clear picture monolingual processing, there is still much controversy bilinguals’ processing their two languages. The goal this paper therefore provide more evidence on way emotion words are processed and represented late bilinguals. study seeks answer three questions: 1. Are positive faster than negative neutral both languages bilinguals? 2. Is a difference speed which first (L1) second (L2) 3. How bilingual brain? Participants were Turkish-English bilinguals (N = 57). We used visual hemi-field paradigm, stimuli presented either right or left computer screen. By pressing designated keys, participants performed lexical decision task they determined whether visually L1 L2 real non-words. result showed that bilinguals, providing further support for differential words. Second, longer response times found as compared L1. Finally, we bilateral hemispheric English Turkish. These results contribute literature by from understudied pairs such