Lecture | LACG Meetings
Linguistic and non-linguistic control mechanisms in bilinguals with neurodegenerative diseases
- Marco Calabria
- Date
- Thursday 21 April 2022
- Time
- Series
- LACG Meetings
- Location
- Online | MS Teams
Abstract
The bilingual language control system has been defined as a set of cognitive abilities that allow bilinguals to control their languages. Several brain areas are involved in the language control network including the fronto-parietal network and the fronto-striatal pathways. This knowledge gathered mainly from healthy individuals is the starting point for making predictions about deficits in patients with brain damage. In my talk, I will describe how bilingual language control and its components may be investigated in patients with neurodegenerative diseases (Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s) by combining the predictions from the neural models and the psycholinguistic approach. Specifically, I will focus on the relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic control mechanisms in switching tasks and on the cross-language interference by comparing different types of neurodegenerative diseases.
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