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Ágnes Lukács
Executive functions in typical and atypical language acquisition

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
psychology
Doctoral School of Psychology (Cognitive Science)

Thesis supervisor: Ágnes Lukács
Location of studies (in Hungarian): BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék
Abbreviation of location of studies: BME


Description of the research topic:

Language comprehension recruits numerous nonlinguistic abilities, but the specific role of these abilities in grammatical and semantic processing is not fully clear yet. We aim to examine how individual differences in memory and inhibition are related to individual differences in language acquisition and processing in typical and atypical language (SLI, ASD, dyslexia, ADHD) acquisition
Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive control and parsing: Re-examining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(3), 263-281.
Pléh, Cs. (1998) A mondatmegértés a magyar nyelvben. Budapest: Osiris.

Required language skills: angol
Number of students who can be accepted: 1

Deadline for application: 2024-05-31


2024. IV. 17.
ODT ülés
Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).

 
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