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Tamar Gollan, Ph.D. is studying bilingualism and cognitive processing. She is in need of bilingual-English/Spanish participants 65 and older without cognitive decline as well as persons with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
People who speak more than one language seem to do so effortlessly. But things aren’t always what they seem. By considering how the cognitive system juggles languages bilinguals provide a unique experimental tool for viewing language processing mechanisms, and how they work in concert with general cognitive mechanisms to rapidly produce error free speech.
Research in the lab is funded by the National Institute of Health (NICHD and NIDCD).