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SUMMARY:Fairbrother Lecture: Living with More than One Language - The Effects of Bilingualism on Mind and Brain
DESCRIPTION:Dr Toms Voits\, UiT The Arctic University of Norway \nLanguage is frequently in the headlines\, from worries about people speaking too many languages or too few\, to questions of whether bilingualism protects against cognitive decline in later life. Bilingualism has featured prominently in language debates\, with stories often over-simplifying a more complex picture. \nJoin former Reading doctoral researcher Toms Voits on a journey through the uniqueness and complexity of the human brain’s capacity for language. This public lecture will introduce the ways in which two or more languages co-habit within a single mind\, how processing allows languages to compete and co-operate\, and the much-debated effects of bilingualism on mind and brain. With a focus on research on bilingualism in older adults\, the lecture will examine some of the complexities that need to be unpicked in order to understand relationships between ageing\, cognitive health and language. \n*Due to current restrictions\, this year’s Fairbrother Lecture will be delivered as a pre-recorded film that can be viewed online at any time after its release on Tuesday 11 May. \nTo sign up to receive the link to view the lecture recording please visit the Events page. \nFor further information contact Dr Joanna John. \nFor information on Fairbrother Lectures in other years see previous events. 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/fairbrother-lecture-living-with-more-than-one-language-the-effects-of-bilingualism-on-mind-and-brain/
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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SUMMARY:Why do humans reason? (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
DESCRIPTION:Why do humans reason? Hugo Mercier\nHugo Mercier is a research scientist at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod\, Paris)\, where his work with the Evolution and Social Cognition team and the Collective Intelligence team has focused on two main topics: The function and workings of reasoning (see The Enigma of Reason) and How we evaluate communicated information (see Not Born Yesterday). \nThis seminar is part of The Reading Centre for Cognition Research’s 2021 Summer Seminar Series: Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality \nThe aim of this seminar series is to explore these newer approaches to reasoning and rationality\, looking at cutting edge work in the area and asking what these moves might tell us about how we go about understanding the actions of others and ourselves. \nA standard picture of humans as generally ordered and orderly thinkers has come under significant pressure in recent years\, in particular from the work of Kahneman and others who have stressed our susceptibility to a range of cognitive traps (such as framing or bias). Although the claim commonly associated with this school of thought – that we are ‘predictably irrational’\, in Ariely’s phrase – has been rejected by many\, even those who seek to defend our status as good reasoners often suggest a more complex and potentially messy set of processes\, mechanisms and features than those standardly appealed to in classic folk psychological approaches. \nAll welcome! \nIf you have any questions\, please email Emma Borg e.g.n.borg@reading.ac.uk \nMicrosoft Teams meeting – join here \nresearch.reading.ac.uk/cognition-research/
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/why-do-humans-reason-rccr-summer-seminar-series/
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CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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