Polyglot Conference
This talk examines the cognitive factors posited to enable skillful learning of a new language’s accent, words and syntax: sound perception, working memory, musical ability, motivation, concentration. The speakers will consider them vis-a-vis Geschwind’s Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory, and brain plasticity. Peggy Conner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at CUNY’s Lehman College who has researched factors involved in new-word learning. Loraine Obler, a neurolinguist, is a Distinguished Professor in the Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at CUNY’s Graduate Center whose books include The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (with M. Albert); The Exceptional Brain: Neuropsychology of Talent and Special Abilities (with D. Fein); and Language and the Brain (with K. Gjerlow).
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This was interesting, I hope the do theirs big study about this.
Very interesting, but with a sample size of one, the results are next to meaningless.