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:16999-63b391418dc13ae484d454eb78c17560@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260414T203948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T103000 SUMMARY:Dr. Judith Kroll (University of California at Irvine, Emeritus at Penn S tate) DESCRIPTION:"Language as a life experience: How using two languages shap es the bilingual mind and brain"\n\nJudith F. Kroll\n\nSchool of Educati on\n\nUniversity of California\, Irvine\n\nhttps://bilingualismmindbrain .com/research/\n\ne-mail: judith.kroll@uci.edu\n\nIn the last two decade s there has been an upsurge of research on the bilingual mind and brain. Although the world is multilingual\, only recently have cognitive and l anguage scientists come to see that the use of two or more languages pro vides a unique lens to examine the neural plasticity engaged by language experience. But how? It is now uncontroversial to claim that the biling ual’s two languages are continually active\, creating a dynamic interpla y across the two languages. But there continues to be controversy about the consequences of that cross-language exchange for how cognitive and n eural resources are recruited when a second language is learned and used actively and whether native speakers of a language retain privilege in their first acquired language. In the earliest months of life\, minds an d brains are tuned differently when exposed to more than one language fr om birth. That tuning has been hypothesized to open the speech system to new learning. For the oldest bilingual adults\, there is evidence that a life of being bilingual confers protections against cognitive decline. In this talk\, I illustrate the ways that recent studies have shown tha t the minds and brains of bilinguals are inherently complex and social\, taking into account the variation in contexts in which the two language s are learned and used\, and shaping the dynamics of cross-language exch ange across the lifespan.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu /event/dr-judith-kroll/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Language as a life experience: How using two langua ges shapes the bilingual mind and brain"

Judith F. Kroll
School of Educa tion
University of California, Irvine
https://bilingualismmindbrain.com/research/
e-mail: judith.kroll@uci.edu

In the last two decades there has been an upsurge of research on the bilingual mind and brain. A lthough the world is multilingual, only recently have cognitive and lang uage scientists come to see that the use of two or more languages provid es a unique lens to examine the neural plasticity engaged by language ex perience. But how? It is now uncontroversial to claim that the bilingual ’s two languages are continually active, creating a dynamic interplay ac ross the two languages. But there continues to be controversy about the consequences of that cross-language exchange for how cognitive and neura l resources are recruited when a second language is learned and used act ively and whether native speakers of a language retain privilege in thei r first acquired language. In the earliest months of life, minds and bra ins are tuned differently when exposed to more than one language from bi rth. That tuning has been hypothesized to open the speech system to new learning. For the oldest bilingual adults, there is evidence that a life of being bilingual confers protections against cognitive decline. In th is talk, I illustrate the ways that recent studies have shown that the m inds and brains of bilinguals are inherently complex and social, taking into account the variation in contexts in which the two languages are le arned and used, and shaping the dynamics of cross-language exchange acro ss the lifespan.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-judith-kr oll/

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