Neste ciclo de conferências, os Laboratórios de Investigação do CIPsi convidam personalidades nacionais e internacionais de relevo nas suas áreas de investigação para partilharem diferentes perspetivas, metodologias e abordagens na investigação científica da mente e do comportamento.
A convite do Laboratório de Cognição Humana, e com apresentação da Doutora Helena Mendes Oliveira, a Doutora Leona Polyanskaya traz-nos a conferência "Linguistic typology as a factor of bilingual advantage in metacognitive performance", no dia 24 de fevereiro às 12h15, no Anfiteatro EPsi
A apresentação terá a duração de 30 minutos, com 15 minutos adicionais para perguntas.
Leona Polyanskaya é investigadora do Centro de Imagem Biomédica e Investigação Translacional (CIBIT) do Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde (ICNAS), da Universidade de Coimbra, e da Universität Göttingen (Alemanha). É coordenadora do projeto “TypoMetaLing: Effect of linguistic experience on metacognition in language tasks and transfer to non-linguistic behavior”, financiado pelo Conselho Europeu de Investigação (ERC), no qual pretende investigar a influência da língua nativa e do bilinguismo nos processos de tomada de decisão e no comportamento. A sua investigação tem procurado aprofundar as relações entre temas como o bilinguismo, a metacognição, a neurociência biológica e a linguística. Trabalha com uma rede internacional de colaboradores, na Alemanha (Universität Göttingen), Portugal (Instituto de Imagiologia Biomédica de Coimbra), Arábia Saudita (Prince Sultan University, Riyadh), Mexico (Centro Regional de Educación Normal, Felipe Carrillo Puerto) e China (Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou). É autora de diversas publicações e revisora em revistas científicas internacionais, incluindo Journal of Phonetics; International Journal of Applied Linguistics; Language and Speech e Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. Integra o conselho editorial da revista Journal of Experimental Psychology.
A apresentação terá a duração de 30 minutos, com 15 minutos adicionais para perguntas.
Resumo:
Linguistic typology as a factor of bilingual advantage in metacognitive performance
Metacognition is the ability to monitor and evaluate one’s own cognitive performance. Simultaneous acquisition of multiple linguistic systems hones many cognitive processes related to phonological memory and attention, which may affect the conscious awareness of what is being learned and the ability to evaluate cognitive performance in the tasks that activate the same neuro-cognitive mechanisms that are brought to bear when natural language is processed. We assessed the effect of bilingualism on metacognitive processing in the artificial language learning task, in 2 experiments varying in task difficulty. We found bilingual advantage in metacognitive performance, with no differences between groups in cognitive performance. However, bilinguals do not constitute a homogeneous population, and it was unclear which aspects of bilingualism affect metacognition. Further, we tested the hypothesis that simultaneous acquisition and use of typologically different languages is the main driving factor of bilingual advantage in metacognitive efficiency. We ran 4 experiments to compare metacognition of Basque-Spanish bilinguals (typologically different languages), Catalan-Spanish bilinguals (typologically similar languages) and Spanish monolinguals in an artificial language learning task in visual and auditory modalities on linguistic and non-linguistic material. The hypothesis was confirmed in the auditory modality for linguistic stimuli; no between-domain transfer of metacognitive abilities was observed at the individual level.
