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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Workshop: „Multilingual Brains and Individual Differences: a neuropsycholinguistic perspective“

Workshop Organizers:

• Susanne Maria Reiterer, Julia Festman

Preliminary programme:

• Susanne Reiterer (University of Tübingen, Germany) & Julia Festman (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
  Short introduction to the topic
   
• Narly Golestani (University Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland)
  The brain and multilingualism: Individual differences and expertise
  (Sponsored by Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin)
   
• Elise Wattendorf (University of Fribourg & Basel, Switzerland)
  FMRI on sentence processing in early and late multilinguals
  (Sponsored by “Medizinelektronik”, Brain Products, München)
   
• COFFEE BREAK (15:20-15:50)
   
• Manuela Macedonia (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
  Neural correlates of high performance in foreign language vocabulary learning
  (Sponored by the „Jung Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Hamburg“)
   
• Chantel S Prat (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
  Individual Differences in Language Experience and Working Memory Capacity in the Dynamic Brain
   
• QUESTIONS AND PLENARY DISCUSSION (17:00-17:30)

See the individual abstracts and the workshop description here

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