Seminar

Understanding Language in the Brain: from the lab to the actual world

Prof. Manuel Carreiras

Most of people acquire a first language without effort, but some have difficulties speaking and understanding it, and others learning to read. Most people either learn more than one language from birth or invest quite a lot of time and effort learning a second language. Finally, some people loose part of their linguistic abilities with age or after some brain damage. In this talk Prof. Manuel Carreiras will review the different research lines they are carrying out in the BCBL to understand how they acquire language, how they process language (comprehension and production) and reading in monolingual and bilingual settings, in children with typical and atypical developmental trajectories, in the elderly and in patients with brain damage.