Our Reading Group!
We host a weekly Reading Group in which members of the lab and the community share their papers and review recent publications. This forum is open to those who wish to join and is a platform for meaningful discussion and ideas. If you would like to join the PoLaR Lab mailing list or tocontribute a talk, please contact the Lab Manager Mahdis Jafari here.
| Date | Start Time | Presenter | Affiliation (if external to UiT) | Talk Format | Title |
| August 15 | 1430 | Yuko Mutsuoka | Kings College London | Presentation | Investigating the narrative macrostructure abilities in the two languages of Japanese-English bilingual children |
| August 21 | 1430 | Vince | Paper discussion | The influence of bilingualism on gray matter volume in the course of aging: a longitudinal study. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1193283 | |
| 28 August | 1430 | Jorge/Claudia | Universidad Nebrija | Presentation | TBA |
| 4 September | 1430 | OFF | NA | NA | NA |
| 11 September | 1430 | OFF | NA | NA | NA |
| 18 September | 1430 | Floor van den Berg | University of Groningen | Project Presentation | Introducing bilingual experience as a healthy cognitive aging tool |
| 25 September | 1430 | OFF | NA | NA | NA |
| 2 October | 1430 | Acqva Talk | NA | NA | (AcqVA talk) |
| 9 October | 1430 | OFF | NA | NA |
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| 16 October | 1430 | Vincent DeLuca | UiT | Paper discussion | Meulman et al: GAM-based individual difference for L2 ERP studies; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100079 |
| 23 October | 1430 | Jiuzhou Hao | UiT | Paper discussion | Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder |
| 30 October | 1430 | Janine Rook | University of Groningen | Presentation | Methodological considerations- fNIRS, EEG, bilingualism and aging |
| 6 November | 1430 | Brechje van Osch | NA | NA | NA |
| 13 November | 1430 | Acqva Talk | NA | NA | Acqva Talk |
| 20 November | 1430 | Patrick Thane | University of Massachusetts | Invited Speaker |
Education, Age, and Exposure: Conspiring Variables in the Acquisition of Spanish as a Heritage Language |
| 27 November | 1430 | Pablo Bernabeu | UiT | Presentation |
Implementation of a longitudinal, artificial language study to investigate language learning, morphosyntactic transfer, and their association with executive functions |
| 4 December | 1430 | Sofia Gonzalez Castro | Jagellonian University | Presentation | TBA |
| 11 December | 1430 | Yanina Prystauka | University of Agder | Presentation | The effect of physical exercise on the neural circuits important for language (specifically, for naming and tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon) |