We’re thrilled to announce Esti-Blanco Elorrieta (NYU Psychology) as our keynote speaker! 

The neural bases of bilingualism: theory and insights from neuroimaging

Understanding how our brains process language is one of the fundamental issues in cognitive science. In order to reach such understanding, it is critical to cover the full spectrum of manners in which humans acquire and experience language. However, due to a myriad of socioeconomic factors, research has disproportionately focused on monolingual English speakers, even though the majority of the world is, in fact, multilingual. In this talk, I present a series of studies that systematically target fundamental questions about bilingual language use across a range of conversational contexts. The results lay the groundwork to propose a more comprehensive theory of the neural bases of language that has implications for our understanding of language disorders in bilingual individuals.