Bilingual visual perception is an under-researched area in psycholinguistics and has yielded contradictory results regarding language control. Two theories were developed to account for visual language perception in bilinguals – the Inhibitory Control model (Green, 1986) and the Bilingual Interactive Activation model (Grainger and Dijkstra, 1992). Even though these two accounts have opposite predictions for asymmetrical language control (different for the bilingual’s L1 and L2), most research up to date found evidence only for symmetrical control (Macizo et al., 2012; Orfanidou and Summer, 2005). This study aims to investigate the influence of language dominance on the visual language perception of bilinguals and providing evidence for the accountability of the models mentioned above. Thirty-one Hungarian-English bilinguals were recruited for this study.

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