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From tag to task: Coming to grips with bilingual control issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

TON DIJKSTRA
Affiliation:
Nijmegen Institute of Cognition and Information (NICI), University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: dijkstra@nici.kun.nl

Extract

The recent trend in psycholinguistics from autonomous, rule-oriented models with symbolic representations towards more interactive, regularity oriented, and subsymbolic models reflects an increasing awareness that the finer aspects of cognitive processing may be sensitive to “contextual factors.” Apparently, there is systematic variability in the data that depends on task demands and stimulus list composition, and their effect on the strategies and decision criteria maintained by the experimental subject. However, most current (computational) models at best embody a task-independent stimulus identification process with a simple decision process operating in the same rigid manner across different tasks (Dijkstra & de Smedt, 1996).

Type
Peer Commentaries
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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