The multilingual brain

episode 20

“The bilingual mind is not the exception, quite the contrary. So studying the bilingual mind is not looking at a footnote in the textbook of linguistics, but at what typifies languages for the vast majority in the world.”
Adolfo M. García

Hello and welcome to this new episode of Minds between languages. Our guest today is Adolfo M. García, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center UdeSA, Argentina, who will talk about the multilingual brain.

Disclaimer: The subtitles available in the youtube-video are machine-generated and may contain errors.

Suggested readings

García, A. M. (2019). The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Pérez, G., Hesse, E., Dottori, M., Birba, A., Amoruso, L., Martorell Caro, M., Ibáñez, A. & García, A. M. (2022). The bilingual lexicon, back and forth: Electrophysiological signatures of translation asymmetry. Neuroscience 481, 134-143.

Zheng, B., Báez, S., Su, L., Xiang, X., Weis, S., Ibáñez, A. & García, A. M. (2020). Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality. Brain and Cognition 143, 105584.

Dottori, M., Hesse, E., Santilli, M., Vilas, M., Martorell Caro, M., Fraiman, D., Sedeño, L., Ibáñez, A. & García, A. M. (2020). Task-specific signatures in the expert brain: Differential correlates of translation and reading in professional interpreters. NeuroImage 209, 116519.

García, A. M., Muñoz, E. & Kogan, B. (2019). Taxing the bilingual mind: Effects of simultaneous interpreting experience on verbal and executive mechanisms. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 23(4), 729-739.

Santilli, M., Vilas, M., Mikulan, E., Martorell Caro, M., Muñoz, E., Sedeño, L., Ibáñez, A. & García, A. M. (2018). Bilingual memory, to the extreme: Lexical processing in simultaneous interpreters. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 22(2), 331-348.

Further resources

Personal website: https://adolfogarcia.com.ar/

Cognitive Neuroscience Center: https://udesa.edu.ar/cnc

Include Network: https://include-network.com/

TELL app: www.tellapp.org

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