MRHUB Meetings – two guest lectures on EEG in linguistic research (20.10)

Multilingualism Research Hub meetings

 

20.10.2022 (Thursday), 11.30-13.00, room 1016

 

Two speakers will present their research:

 

Dr Karolina Broś (Institute of Applied Linguistics)

Using N400 in phonological research – the ‘semantics’ of word stress perception

I will describe my study on word stress perception in Spanish in which I elicited a semantic ERP component called N400 (although disclaimer: it’s not only semantic, I’m simplifying matters a bit). I will briefly talk about the N400, then about previous research on stress perception and implications for phonology, and then about the study I designed.

 

Dr Kalinka Timmer (Faculty of Psychology)

Let’s talk bilingualism: the impact of language context on attention and control mechanisms

How does bilingual language control flexibly adapt to different language contexts? Long-term bilingualism has been suggested to impact the efficiency of control mechanisms. Here we explore short-term language context changes (e.g., monolingual vs. bilingual context) on the plasticity of control mechanisms.