ABSTRACT
THE OBSTINACY WITH WHICH psycholinguists continue to look for differences in hemispheric asymmetry between bilinguals and unilinguals is nothing short of astounding. Given the dead-end that the issue is faced with after over two decades of contradictory results, why would researchers want to carry out one more of the same type of inconclusive experiments? Yet the topic seems as popular as ever and scores of experiments continue to be submitted for publication with increasingly implausible interpretations, and, more disturbingly, with recommendations for application of the alleged finding of increased participation of the right hemisphere to foreign language teaching, the treatment of mental illness, or the rehabilitation of bilingual aphasia.
