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The Bilingual Brain

University of Houston System

4.6 (258 ratings) | 14K Students Enrolled

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This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in age of initial learning, proficiency, and control in the nonverbal, single language and dual-language literature. Participants will learn about the latest research related to how humans learn one or two languages and other cognitive skills.

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4.6 (258 ratings)

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DR

Oct 14, 2019

This course provides lost of data and valuable information for those who are interested in bilingualism and how the brain works.

CS

Jan 29, 2019

This class covered many different aspects of bilingualism (and multiligualism) and included evidence from research.

From the lesson

Week 1

Office Hours 117:05

1-1 Introduction1:28

1-2 Familiarity and Its Neural Instantiation2:23

1-3 Age of Acquisition7:01

1-4 Beyond Language1:45

1-5 Plan for this course8:02

1-6 Toward a Bilingual Metaphor4:28

Taught By

Arturo E. Hernandez
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Transcript

[NOISE] Otto Poetzl, introduced the idea that there might be some form of, a switch, or a mechanism that maintains one in one language or the other. So, what might happen to some people is they actually get stuck in a language. And he trained as a, again as a, in the psychoanalytic movement with Freud. But his most interesting work with regard to language came when he was in the Czech Republic. So he met a young man who was a Czech native speaker, but learned German at the age of 14. And what he noticed was that this patient became stuck in one language, was not able to get out of that language, or using that language. And his idea was that this wasn't damage to the language system per se. Rather, it was a difficulty with his ability to switch out of the language. Now the idea of a language switch, actually is lived, had a quite long life in the psychological literature, and even in the neural science literature with regard to bilingualism. Where people have this idea that there is some form of a switch that's used to turn one language on, and turn one language off. Again that's a very simple metaphor to use but, I'll use that sort of illustrate the idea. And that began with Putzel back in the 1920s, where he developed this idea and has continued to live in the literature including work by a Wilder Penfield, where he thought of the idea of a switch mechanism, and then more recently what has been more and more worked on looking at the nature of control or switching in bilinguals.

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