At the moment, at the Laboratory for the Neural Basis of Bilingualism we are working on the following projects:

Abstracts:

Hernandez, A.E., Waldron, E.J., Aznar-Besé, N., Shaughnessy, J. (2006, in press). Effects of frequency on brain activity during word reading in Spanish-English bilinguals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Waldron, E.J., Aznar-Besé, N., Shaughnessy, J., & Hernandez, A.E. (2006, in press). Past tense generation in monolinguals and bilinguals: An fMRI comparison. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Aznar-Besé, N., Waldron, E.J., Shaughnessy, J., & Hernandez, A.E. (2006, in press). Thought and Talked: an fMRI study of past-tense generation in Spanish/English bilinguals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Neural correlates of reading in bilinguals. This fMRI project, started by Dr. Gayane Meschyan and continued by Noemí Aznar-Besé, studies the differences in the neural activation patterns of bilingual Spanish/English adult and children when reading in both languages. It is still in its incipient stage but we are working on getting the data soon.

Neural correlates of word learning. In this study, Kelly E. King and Dr. Hernandez investigate the neural correlates of word learning in monolinguals by presenting German cognates, German noncognates and English matched control words to participants while being scanned with fMRI.

Abstracts:

King, K.E., Shaughnessy, J., Hernandez, A.E. (2006 in press). Word Learning in Late and Novice Learners of German. INS Abstracts.

PARTICIPATING IN A STUDY

If you would like to participate in one of our experiments, please check out "Participating in a study" by clicking this link or on the ones on the left.