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A key question for students of cognitive psychology concerns the representation of experience and of behavior. The question underlies work on memory, perception, psycholinguistics, and all other activities in which response to stimulation requires something other than “conditioning” as an explanation; in which, that is, there is some selection from, transformation of, or other processing directed at the stimulus. The phenonemon of bilingualism affords a particularly powerful way of approaching aspects of this question, insofar as it permits the investigator to present information in one of a bilingual person’s languages and test for it in the other. Careful observation and judicious inference can then permit the investigator to make some assumptions about the nature of representation; in the course of things, he may also learn a good deal about bilingualism and the cognitive functions of the bilingual individual.
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Kolers, P.A. (1978). On the Representations of Experience. In: Gerver, D., Sinaiko, H.W. (eds) Language Interpretation and Communication. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9077-4_22
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