Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingual Reading Across the Lifespan

阅读能力是现代生活的核心。然而，相对较少的实验工作集中在双语者的阅读，尽管他们在全球的数量超过单语者。惠特福德博士的认知神经科学研究计划将联合收割机结合尖端的行为和神经成像技术，以调查如何阅读过程中发展的儿童和整个生命周期的单语和双语者一样。她的工作将提供宝贵的见解，将指导公共政策，旨在提高识字率，劳动生产率和加拿大内外的生活质量，并导致我们的进步的识别和治疗阅读障碍，与年龄相关的沟通障碍和精神健康障碍。

The ability to read is central to modern life. Yet relatively little experimental work has focused on reading in bilinguals, although they outnumber monolinguals globally. Dr. Whitfords cognitive neuroscience research program will combine cutting-edge behavioural and neuroimaging techniques to investigate how reading processes develop in childhood and progress across the lifespan in monolinguals and bilinguals alike. Her work will provide invaluable insights that will guide public policy aimed at improving literacy rates, labour productivity, and quality of life within Canada and beyond, and lead to advances in our the identification and treatment of reading disorders, age-related communication disorders, and mental health disorders.