Multilingual Cognitive Development and Impact

1. Multilingual Cognitive Development and Impact By – Neha Gupta Ajay Rajaram

3. Motivation • How are multi-linguistic skills developed in humans?

4. Motivation • Difference in cognition of multi-linguists and mono-linguists • Impact of multi-linguistic skills on other aspects of cognition and creativity

5. Cognitive and Linguistic Processing in the Bilingual Mind • How does bilingualism affects cognitive processes across the life span of human being?

6. Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals • Neuroscience View on the working of the brains of bilingual people – uses Neuro-Imaging to study brain activation when a person switches one language to another

7. Bilingualism and Creativity across Cultures • Study by AnatoliyKharkhurin examines the possible impact of bilingualism on creativity • The suggestion is that bilingualism seems to have a positive impact on creativity • However, does bilingualism have a direct impact on creativity or does it impact the mechanisms and processes underlying creativity? (Hommel et al. 2011)

8. Cognitive Factors in Bilingual Children’s Pragmatic Language Skills • Studies cognitive factors in bilingual children, and how children develop the ability to speak the right language at the right time

9. References from ACM C&C • “Dialogue through design: visual communication across the cultural divide”, Kara Pecknold • “In translation: a visualization of Language”, Linda Becker

10. Methodology of Work • Survey of related work • Experiments to support the conclusion

11. Expected Outcome • Paper providing an insight into the development and impact of multi-linguistic skills, especially in children • Correlation between linguistic skills and other non-linguistic creative and cognitive abilities - music, arithmetic, art, etc • Experimental data pertaining to multilingualism and to support the above hypothesis

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