Multilingual Lexicon and what it tells us about Cognition and the Brain - Talk by Prof. John Schwieter
I attended a Talk titled "Multilingual Lexicon and what it tells us about Cognition and the Brain" by Prof. Schwieter where I had the opportunity to learn about the different methods used to understand how languages are processed and activated in an ordinary multilingual/bilingual individual. These are few of my notes from this talk : Different languages are constantly active regardless of whether only one language is shown in that moment ( e.g. A Spanish-English bilingual speaking in English ). This process is called co-activation . One of the questions that was answered in the talk was "How can we examine words and lexical processing in the brain?", in other words how do we understand what is happening in the brain when we switch from one language to another? There are two ways we can investigate lexical activation 1. Measuring Behaviour through priming, inhibitory controls and eye tracking 2. Measuring brain activity through fMRI, PET and EEG 1. Measuring behav