The Bilingual Brain - Arturo Hernandez

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Résumé :
Arturo Hernandez presents the results of 25 years of research into the factors that might help us to understand how two (or more) languages are stored in one brain. It is clear that the brain is not egalitarian-some languages are privileged and others are not, but why?

Biographie:
Arturo Hernandez is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience graduate program at the University of Houston. He received his PhD in Cognitive Science and Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1996 working with Elizabeth Bates, one of the premier developmental psychologists in the world. His major research interest is in the neural underpinnings of bilingual language processing and second language acquisition in children and adults. He has used a variety of neuroimaging methods as well as behavioral techniques to investigate these phenomena which have been published in a number of peer reviewed journal articles. His research is currently funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. Hernandez's interest in language learning has also been informed by having learned four languages at various points during his life. He learned Spanish and English simultaneously as a child, spending the school year at home in California and each summer in Mexico. At the age of 20, he spent two years in Brazil during which he became fluent in Portuguese. His more recent visits to Germany have the added benefit of lending personal insight into language learning well beyond the college years.

Sommaire:
TABLE OF CONTENTS ; CHAPTER 1: ANTAGONISTS, PARASITES, AND SYMBIOTES ; CHAPTER 2. THE SENSORIMOTOR NATURE OF EARLY LEARNING ; CHAPTER 4: PROFICIENCY, EFFICIENCY AND EXPERTISE ; CHAPTER 5: PRACTICE WHAT YOU SPEAK ; CHAPTER 6: CONTROLLED ADJUSTMENTS ; CHAPTER 7: CONTROL, FLEXIBILITY AND THE TWO LANGUAGE DILEMMA ; CHAPTER 8: THE FINAL FRONTIER ; BIBLIOGRAPHY