Workshop
Bilingualism and the Brain
When: June 1st – 2nd, 2021
Where: Tromsø, Norway
Given the current situation with the corona pandemic, its unforeseeable circumstances and the likely issues for travel, we have decided to postpone the workshop to June 1st– 2nd 2021 when we hope (and have good reason to believe) we will be able to host everyone in Tromsø. We certainly hope to see you all in the Summer of 2021—the snow will have melted by then and the temperature will be just about right to explore the beautiful landscapes of Tromsø! If you do have any questions, concerns or if there are any changes in your abstract, please do not hesitate to contact us at bilingualismandthebrain@gmail.com
The AcqVA Aurora Centre (formerly LAVA) and the PoLaR lab (Psycholinguistics of Language Representation) at UiT the Arctic University of Norway are pleased to announce the workshop Bilingualism and the Brain, to be held in Tromsø June 1st–2nd, 2021. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers from around the world who work on bilingualism from a brain prospective. More specifically, the focus will be to what extent the amount of exposure, knowledge and the degree of active engagement with more than one language in a single mind affects brain structure, brain functions, and/or how neurophysiological measures tap into the processing of multiple languages.
Keynote speakers
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Photo Courtesy of The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), Singapore Examining bilingualism and learning through structural and functional neuroimaging
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Neural correlates of cognitive processing for different aspects of bilingualism |
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On-line sentence comprehension adaptation when listening to foreign-accented speakers |
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Bilingualism and neuroplasticity: Taking stock and moving forward |
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Cognitive control and bilingualism: Recognized challenges and ways forward |
Up to five 5000 NOK (roughly 500 euros) in funding is available to PhD students with highly rated abstracts. If you wish to be considered for this, please send an e-mail to: bilingualismandthebrain@gmail.com.
Organizers
Jason Rothman (UiT, Nebrija)
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia (Nebrija, UiT)
Jubin Abutalebi (UniSR, UiT)
Fatih Bayram (UiT)
Jorge González Alonso (UiT)
Maki Kubota (UiT)
Sergio Soares (Konstanz)
James McDonald (UiT)
The generous funding made available by the following sources
