Æresforelesning:
Onsdag 14. mars 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00 G-salen, Svante Arrenius väg 20C, Frescati.
Tema: The Young Language Learner: from Brain Mechanisms to Intevention.
Abstract:
As infants and toddlers have a limited language production, it can be challenging to obtain reliable data about how they learn and understand words. During the past decades, electrophysiological techniques have been established as a window into the inner workings of the developing language system, enabling both the study of language knowledge and the learning process as it unfolds in real time. Studies using these techniques have shown robust associations between productive vocabulary and neural correlates of receptive word processing. Moreover, children at risk for language or reading disorders have a neural signature of word processing that differs from their peers already in the first years of life. These individual differences in language processing may be related to the ability to extract statistical cues from the linguistic environment. Thus, tailoring the linguistic input to support optimal functioning of the child’s statistical learning mechanisms may be a promising avenue for developing effective language interventions.
Foredraget arrangeres av Institutt for lingvistikk ved Universitetet i Stockholm i samarbeid med Nobelinstituttet for nevrofysiologi og Department of Clinical Science ved Karolinska Institutt.