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SUMMARY:Bilingual Brains - Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Ko
 ng\, HKU)
DTSTART:20201119T163000Z
DTEND:20201119T180000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Laméris
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 CT*\n\nMany studies have investigated the cognitive processes used to prod
 uce words in multilingual speakers. However\, one criticism of this resear
 ch is the emphasis on Indo-European languages. The question posed in this 
 presentation is whether the cognitive processes that have been assumed in 
 psycholinguistic models of language processing (naming\, reading and spell
 ing) also apply to multilingual speakers. This question is important becau
 se a majority of speakers around the world are multilingual and use very d
 ifferent writing systems. Indeed\, even within a language e.g. Japanese an
 d Korean - two or more scripts must be learned to become literate. The out
 come of our research in Hong Kong with a truly multilingual population sho
 ws that script does matter in neuro-cognitive processing of written words 
 with implications for models of the neurobiology of language. The results 
 also have clinical implications for the diagnosis and treatment of aphasia
 \, dyslexia and dysgraphia in multilingual speakers.\n\n*BIO*\n\nProfessor
  Weekes is Foundation Chair in Communication Science at the University of 
 Hong Kong (HKU) and Director of the Laboratory for Communication Science a
 lso at HKU. Professor Weekes is an internationally recognized expert in th
 e field of language and cognitive processing in speakers who have communic
 ation disorders as well as the application of cognitive neuroscience metho
 ds to the diagnosis and treatment of language impairment. He is on the edi
 torial boards of Aphasiology\, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition\, Lang
 uages\, Language Science\, and Psicologia reflecting his interests in comm
 unication disorders and experimental psychology in different languages. He
  has also served on expert panels for the Australian Research Council\, Br
 itish Academy\, BBSRC\, the Economic and Social Research Council\, MultiLi
 ng at the University of Oslo\, Research Grants Council Hong Kong\, Royal S
 ociety\, UK Medical Research Council and the National Science Foundation\,
  USA. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and curre
 ntly a Visitor in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge a
 nd was Ambassador for UNESCO (2019).\n
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