BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16783-b0c3212178a6fb50ee15a2619b243313@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T062919Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T103000 SUMMARY:Debra Titone, McGill University DESCRIPTION:“Reading-To-Think: How We Decode\, Reason\, and Make Decisio ns in a First and Second Language”\n\nEvery day\, we reason and make dec isions based on what we read in our first or second language. For exampl e\, we might read a social media post and decide whether to like or shar e it\, or read job application materials and decide whom to hire. Resear ch in cognitive and neural sciences explores the mechanisms of reading ( e.g.\, decoding words\, sentences\, and discourse) and thinking (e.g.\, inferencing\, reasoning\, decision making)\, but rarely are the full ran ge of processes investigated all together. On this point\, recent work o n the "Foreign Language Effect" has raised the possibility that bilingua l people make decisions differently when reading in a second language co mpared to their first\, or that bilingual experiences lead to decision-m aking differences between bilingual and monolingual individuals\, regard less of the language used. However\, assuming such effects are robust an d general\, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood\, as few s tudies have directly examined how reading processes link to goal-driven decisions. Debra Titone refers to this collective capacity as "Reading-T o-Think\," inspired by cognitive linguistics approaches like "Thinking-f or-Speaking" (Slobin\, 1987) as well as psycholinguistic theories that i ntegrate language and cognitive processes (e.g.\, Stanovich &\; Cunni ngham\, 1991\; Gernsbacher\, 1991\, 1995). In this talk\, she highlights ongoing work from her laboratory that investigates how multilingual adu lts read-to-think in their first and second languages across a variety o f domains. This includes texts requiring inferencing and decision making (logical\, mentalizing\, and ironic inferences) and texts requiring mor al reasoning and decision making.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/dr-debra-titone-mcgill-university/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Reading-To-Th ink: How We Decode, Reason, and Make Decisions in a First and Second Lan guage”

Every day, we reason and make decisions based on what we r ead in our first or second language. For example, we might read a social media post and decide whether to like or share it, or read job applicat ion materials and decide whom to hire. Research in cognitive and neural sciences explores the mechanisms of reading (e.g., decoding words, sente nces, and discourse) and thinking (e.g., inferencing, reasoning, decisio n making), but rarely are the full range of processes investigated all t ogether. On this point, recent work on the "Foreign Language Effect" has raised the possibility that bilingual people make decisions differently when reading in a second language compared to their first, or that bili ngual experiences lead to decision-making differences between bilingual and monolingual individuals, regardless of the language used. However, a ssuming such effects are robust and general, the underlying mechanisms a re not well understood, as few studies have directly examined how readin g processes link to goal-driven decisions. Debra Titone refers to this c ollective capacity as "Reading-To-Think," inspired by cognitive linguist ics approaches like "Thinking-for-Speaking" (Slobin, 1987) as well as ps ycholinguistic theories that integrate language and cognitive processes (e.g., Stanovich & Cunningham, 1991; Gernsbacher, 1991, 1995). In th is talk, she highlights ongoing work from her laboratory that investigat es how multilingual adults read-to-think in their first and second langu ages across a variety of domains. This includes texts requiring inferenc ing and decision making (logical, mentalizing, and ironic inferences) an d texts requiring moral reasoning and decision making.

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