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Can neuroscience help us to understand how we learn to read?| title | Can neuroscience help us to understand how we learn to read? |
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| start_date | 2025/03/12 |
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| schedule | 13h-14h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | 118 |
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| summary | In this talk I will discuss the challenges involved in learning to read and how cognitive theories of reading propose that we solve these challenges. In particular, I will explain that we can comprehend text either by associating the printed forms of words directly with their meanings, or by associating the printed forms of words with their pronunciations and then using our spoken language knowledge to link these pronunciations to meanings. I will then present two brain imaging experiments that attempt to answer the following questions: 1) Is it better to focus on word pronunciations or meanings when teaching reading? 2) Does the way in which we learn to read differ depending on the writing system we are learning (e.g., English vs. Chinese)? I will end by considering more generally how neuroscience can be a useful tool for understanding the mechanisms involved in a complex task like reading and what it might be able to tell us in future. |
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| responsibles | Talbot |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/03/05 14:20 UTC |
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