New findings and a reappraisal of critical periods in language acquisition
Research Associate Professor Joshua Hartshorne from the MGH Institute of Health Professions (Boston, MA, USA) is visiting the Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL), where he will teach the workshop "Methods for Online Language Research" on September 15 & 16.
At the occasion of his visit, he will present the talk "New findings and a reappraisal of critical periods in language acquisition".
Abstract:
Compared with adults, children are sharply limited when it comes to many intellectual activities (math, science, art) or cognitive abilities (memory, attention, social inference). Nonetheless, they are strikingly more successful at learning language. The question of why is one of the oldest in cognitive science and among the most hotly debated. I present recent behavioral, neurological, and computational results based on millions of subjects that begin to fill in the missing parts of the puzzle, suggesting a radically different picture of how language learning changes with age.
You can join the lecture online via Teams or in-person at E0101. If you are on campus, we would greatly appreciate your in-person participation.