Sensorimotor plasticity and cognitive flexibility: A Neuroremergentist approach
Join this event to hear Arturo Hernandez discuss Neuroemergentism with a focus on bilingual brain structures and cognitive flexibility.
Sensorimotor plasticity and cognitive flexibility: A Neuroremergentist approach
20 Nov 2023, 18:00 – 19:30
Neuroemergentism (NM) is a novel framework, which has sought to consider language development as involving the organisation and reorganisation of cognition and its underlying neural substrate.
Arturo will focus on two separate levels, the sensorimotor plasticity needed to adjust to new input, and the cognitive flexibility needed to select between these competing sources of information. He will discuss both these levels with regard to the neurocognitive adaptations seen in bilinguals – including structural brain differences in monolinguals and bilinguals that vary in the age of second language acquisition.
This online event will be particularly useful for academics, students and teachers.
Multilingualism and Diversity: Impact on Education, Health and Society seminar series
This seminar series aims to bridge science with practice in education. Leading experts in linguistics, psychological sciences and neurosciences will engage with education practitioners, parents, students and members of the public who have an interest in multicultural diversity and inclusion.
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Professor Arturo E. Hernandez
Professor of Psychology
the University of Houston
His major research interest is in the neural underpinnings of bilingual language processing and second language acquisition in children and adults.
More recently, his work has led to a new theoretical framework called Neurocomputational Emergentism which seeks to understand how the brain and cognition dynamically reorganise themselves over time to produce higher-level processes such as language.
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Free
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