Jubin Abutalebi: The future of neuroscientific research in the field of bilingualism

Описание: MC/HL2C Seminar: Jubin Abutalebi, The future of neuroscientific research in the field of bilingualism

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Event Details
This event is co-organized by the Multilingualism and Cognition Research Group and the Heritage Language 2 Consortium (HL2C).

The future of neuroscientific research in the field of bilingualism

Jubin Abutalebi (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

In the last two decades the contribution of neuroscience to bilingualism, in terms of discovering the neural architecture, has been enormous. Up-to-date we know how bi- and multilinguals store their languages, how and where they are represented in the human brain and how bilinguals control their languages in order to avoid unwanted language interferences during speech. Old myths that distinct languages are differently stored in the brain have been completed confuted. Neuroscientific studies have also highlighted neural differences between bilinguals and monolinguals for several cognitive functions, even for those circumstances where no behavioral differences did exist. Neuroimaging studies have further shown different neural aging trajectories for bilinguals when compared to monolinguals underlining that the bilingual brain may be better protected against aging effects and cognitive decline.

During my presentation I will provide of brief overview of the state of art and then illustrate and discuss new research lines such as studying the foreign language effect, the effects of sleep and bilingualism on general cognition, the bilingual connectome, and lastly how to focus on individual differences in bilingualism research and heritage language speakers.


Speaker
Prof. Jubin Abutalebi
University Vita-Salute San Raffaele

Jubin Abutalebi, MD, born in Vienna (Austria) is a cognitive neurologist and Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Jubin Abutalebi is also Editor-in-Chief of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.