On the 6th of April 2016 the International Symposium “Experiment in the Studies of Bilingualism in Sign Language and Spoken Language” was organised at Moscow State Linguistic University.
Organizers: the Laboratory for the Study of Sign Language (SCoDis, MSLU).
The symposium is supported by the RSF (grant № 16-18-00070).
Time and location: Moscow State Linguistic University, Ostozhenka 38, room 500/504, 12:00.
Topic: Methods of the experiment aimed at studying two types of bilingualism (monomodal and bimodal) in deaf and hearing people within the framework of neurostudies, namely neural plasticity of the human brain.
Speakers:
Bencie Woll, PhD, professor, Director of Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, London
Velia Cardin, PhD, research associate at Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, London
Natalia Suponeva, Doctor of Medicine, neurologist, the Neurology Research Centre, Moscow
Elena Kremnyova, PhD, researcher of the Department of Radiodiagnostics, the Neurology Research Centre, Moscow