Seminars

Prof. Laura Bosch from Barcelona University   Abstract: Infants and children growing up in bilingual/multilingual environments should no longer be considered as exceptions to the norm, even for those living in monolingual societies. But bilingualism is a broad construct, covering a diversity of dual language exposure contexts, modulated by differential properties of socio-educational environments and […]

Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder affecting approximately 7–12% of the population and is more commonly diagnosed in males than in females. While several cognitive and neural factors associated with dyslexia have been identified, the precise causal mechanisms underlying reading difficulties remain unclear. One recent account, the neural noise hypothesis (Hancock et al., 2017), proposes […]