Data Blitz: Bilingualism and the Brain

As part of Marc Joannisse‘s visit to Montreal, the Montreal Brain and Bilingualism Initiative and CRBLM are co-hosting a student Data Blitz.

When: Wednesday, February 28, 10:00-11:30

Where: 2001 McGill-College, 15th floor, room #1552

Presentations:

Shanna Kousaie – The effects of second language experience on brain structure: A voxel-based morphometry study

Elise Barbeau – Improved reconstruction of the white matter language pathways and second language learning

Jason Gullifer – Bilingual Experience and Resting-State Brain Connectivity: Independent contributions of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use

Max Wolpert – Prosody and Ambiguous Word Segmentation in L1 and L2: Preliminary Analysis of Production Data

Alexandre Chauvin – Cognitive Control in Bilinguals: Does one size fit all?