An Eye Tracking and EEG Investigation of Reading in Monolinguals and Bilinguals across the Adult Lifespan
An Eye Tracking and EEG Investigation of Reading in Monolinguals and Bilinguals across the Adult Lifespan
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
The aim of this study is to examine how reading behaviour and brain activity is associated in bilingual and monolingual adults. This study will use reading measures and measures of brain activation using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to examine differences in the way bilingual people and monolingual people read. People who are fluent in multiple languages tend to categorize language information differently than those who are fluent in only one language. By measuring brain activity during reading in adults, we can better understand how word information is processed and how it relates to reading skills.
Both male and female
18 years old to 75 years old
Healthy Volunteers
Who can participate in this study?
All participants must be within the ages 18-75, right-handed, and have normal or corrected to-normal vision and no self-reported history of speech, hearing, learning, neurological, or psychiatric disorders.
Moreover, all older adults (i.e. 60-75 years) must be cognitively healthy, that is, free of any functional cognitive impairment, including dementia.
Linguistic inclusion criteria:
Monolinguals: Monolinguals must be native speakers of English, with little to no knowledge and/or exposure to any languages other than English. In other words, they must not be able to functionally communicate in a language other than English and/or have had extensive second language (L2) instruction.
Application for the current testing period is interested in recruiting ONLY monolingual participants.
What is involved?
During the study, you will complete a language background questionnaire as well as a series of reading tasks: some pen and paper and some while your brain activation is monitored. Across all tasks, you will be asked to read naturally and silently for comprehension, as though you were reading a book or newspaper. We will monitor your brain's electrical activity with an electroencephalogram (EEG), which uses a cap containing multiple electrodes (conductors) to record small changes in neuronal activity associated with reading. The study will take 1 testing session and approximately 2 hours to complete.
Principal Investigator & Posting Dates
Principal Investigator: Marc Joanisse
Study posted on: March 2nd, 2023
Recruitment open
Who can I contact to learn more about this study?
For more information about this study please contact:
Niki Sinha
nsinha7@uwo.ca
or
Delaney Spencer
dspenc26@uwo.ca
or
Dr. Marc Joanisse
marcj@uwo.ca
Sign Up for Western's Global Cognitive Neuroscience Registry
Heading 2
test line
