心理语言学线上论坛 | 10月20日16:00 Francesca M. Branzi 博士讲座

Speaker: Francesca M. Branzi

Title: Contextual Influences on Multilingual Lexical Access

Time: 16:00 – 17:30, 20 October 2021 

           (Beijing, Hong Kong time)

Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638

            https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

About the speaker 

Dr. Branzi is a neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of language and semantic processing in monolingual and multilingual speakers. She completed her PhD on the cognitive and neural correlates of language production and executive functions in multilinguals, under the supervision of Prof. Albert Costa (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona). In 2015 she was a postdoctoral scientist at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language (San Sebastian, Spain). After being awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2016, she joined the University of Manchester and then the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (University of Cambridge) to work with Prof. Matthew Lambon Ralph. She is now a lecturer at University of Liverpool, UK.

Her recent research focuses more on the neural basis of semantic cognition in naturalistic settings by using a variety of research tools including fMRI, EEG and TMS.

Contextual Influences on Multilingual Lexical Access

Francesca M. Branzi, PhD

Department of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

For multilingual speakers, language production requires managing competition between lexical representations in the two languages. Still, the extent to which this competition is modulated by contextual factors, such as the linguistic context (bilingual versus monolingual) and/or the type of attentional mechanisms (top down versus bottom up), is relatively unknown. During this talk, I will present fMRI and behavioural evidence showing how multilingual lexical access and cross-language competition are affected by different contextual factors. Then, I will discuss the implications of these findings for the psycholinguistic models of language production.

Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum: 

(https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html)