Psycholinguistic Models Shifting Visual Experience for Turkish-English Bilinguals

This article examines the impact of Turkish-English bilingualism on the perception and interpretation of visual experiences within a psycholinguistic framework. The study draws on contemporary cognitive linguistic theories, particularly the bilingual advantage theory and linguistic relativity hypothesis. Special emphasis is placed on how language interaction and cultural frameworks influence attention, memory, interpretation, and emotional evaluation of visual stimuli. The author highlights that switching between languages and cultural codes leads to the reinterpretation, encoding, and reconstruction of visual images in memory. The findings underline the complexity of the interplay between cognitive, linguistic, and cultural factors in shaping bilinguals’ visual perception.