Bilingual Brain – A Lifelong Perspective (Satellite symposium in Quebec City)

The CRBLM, along with CINQ, is pleased to sponsor this satellite symposium within the framework of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference in Quebec City. The symposium reflects on language learning across the lifespan and how our experience with language and multiple language learning informs questions of brain plasticity and organization. In addition to featuring several experts in the field of bilingualism and brain plasticity, the symposium will feature short oral presentations.

Keynote speakers:

Richard Aslin (Haskins Laboratories): “The challenges of behavioral and neuroimaging assessments of bilingual infants.”

Albert Costa, (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies): “How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain?”

Nina Kraus, (Northwestern University): “Hearing in Noise in the Bilingual,  Musician, and Concussed-Athlete Brain.”

Monika Molnar (University of Toronto): “Learning linguistic regularities in a bilingual environment during the first two years of life.”

Susanne Maria Reiterer (University of Vienna): “The cognitive neuroscience of individual differences in language learning abilities: the role of speech imitation,pronunciation and musical ear in language learners, polyglots and multilinguals across age groups.”

 

When: August 15, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Where: Domaine Cataraqui, 2141, chemin Saint-Louis, Quebec City

Full schedule and registration available here.