coggroup October 2018

coggroup@mx1.psych.mcgill.ca

1 participants
2 discussions

[Coggroup] CRAM - Nov 2
by Mehrgol Tiv 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Dear all, On Friday, November 2, Dr. Aparna Nadig from McGill's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders will be speaking about bilingualism and executive functions in children with autism (title & abstract below). As usual, the talk will span from 12-1 PM in room 735 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of talks this term, please visit https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series. To be added to the cognitive list serve and get day-of updates & information about additional talks, please visit http://mx0.psych.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/coggroup. --- Proficient bilingualism and children with autism – is it possible? Can it alleviate executive function difficulties? Dr. Aparna Nadig, McGill SCSD Children with autism often experiences language delays. In this context, it is a common belief that bilingualism may be too challenging for them and may harm their language development. (1) We examined whether proficient bilingualism is possible in school-age children with autism growing up in Montreal, by assessing their language skills as well as by examining the relationship between their amount of language exposure and skills in that language. Our findings demonstrate that proficient bilingualism is possible for some children with autism. (2) Children with autism demonstrate significant executive function (EF) difficulties. Enhanced EF performance has been reported in typically-developing bilingual children relative to monolinguals. We hypothesized that proficient bilingualism may alleviate EF impairments in autism, and tested this using set-shifting and verbal fluency tasks. In both cases, proficient bilinguals with autism outperformed well-matched monolinguals with autism. These findings build on previous research demonstrating that bilingualism is not detrimental for language development in autism. Moreover, they provide novel evidence indicating that bilingualism may even hold benefits with respect to mitigating some executive function impairments in this population.

1 1

Re: [Coggroup] CRAM - Oct 26
by Mehrgol Tiv 26 Oct '18

26 Oct '18

Dear all, Kind reminder that Dr. Marina Doucerain from UQAM Psychology will be speaking at today's CRAM session, from 12-1 PM in room 735 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Please see below for additional information - looking forward to seeing you there! Warmly, Mehrgol ________________________________ From: Mehrgol Tiv Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 11:19 AM To: faculty(a)psych.mcgill.ca; postdoc(a)psych.mcgill.ca; grad(a)psych.mcgill.ca; CRBLM Cc: Marina M. Doucerain Subject: CRAM - Oct 26 Dear all, I am happy to announce the first invited CRAM {Cognitive Research at McGill} speaker this term. On Friday, October 26, Dr. Marina Doucerain from UQAM Psychology will be speaking about the contextual factors involved with acculturation amongst immigrants (title & abstract below). As usual, the talk will span from 12-1 PM in room 735 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of talks this term, please visit https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series, or see attached. To be added to the cognitive list serve and get day-of updates & information about additional talks, please visit http://mx0.psych.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/coggroup. --- Dr. Marina Doucerain Immigrating and negotiating one’s cultural engagement: The role of context and social relationships When people settle in a new country, they face a host of challenges and changes, including for example learning a new language, learning new ways of doing things, or renegotiating their cultural identities. A lot of research has focused on intra-individual factors at play in this process of acculturation. In contrast, this presentation takes the idea that acculturation does not take place in a vacuum as a starting point, and emphasizes the role of contextual factors in acculturation. People are embedded in a range of contexts, ranging from biological dispositions to the cultural composition of their neighbourhood, that strongly influence how they can or decide to handle acculturative changes. This presentation focuses in particular on social aspects of people’s contexts (social interactions, relationships, and networks). -Mehrgol

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

coggroup October 2018