5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found

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The Bilingual Brain

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University of Houston System

The Bilingual Brain

142 classificações

This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in age of initial learning, proficiency, and control in the nonverbal, single language and dual-language literature. Participants will learn about the latest research related to how humans learn one or two languages and other cognitive skills.

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Week 5

Office Hours 520:31

5 Practice What You Speak6:26

5.1 Language Loss4:03

5.2 Catastrophic Loss4:45

5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found3:19

5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition5:29

5.5 Restructuring Plasticity9:43

5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language6:26

5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency3:37

5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language5:58

5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar2:23

5.10 Language and Memory System3:43

5.11 Speech in a Second Language12:15

5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process1:51

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Arturo E. Hernandez
Professor
Psychology

[NOISE] So the question is, can this lost language be found?

Can we recover a language that's lost?

Now notice, lost doesn't mean gone forever.

It just means it's not found at the moment.

And this fits in nicely within the memory literature.

There's some interesting literature within memory.

Of course, very controversial issues such as do repressed memories exist?

Is that possible to have a repressed memory, to recover a lost memory?

And these can have very, very profound consequences on legal cases,

situations where people's lives are at stake and where possible

incarceration could result from the results of these cases.

And in considering this, Bjork,

Robert Bjork has really talked a lot about retrieval and what it means.

And of course, within the memory literature what retrieval is

defined as is the ability to recall a memory,

to bring a memory back, right, to retrieve it from some long term store.

At my high school reunion, I ran to a great number of people that

I'd seen before, many of whom I knew very, very well, and

some that I hadn't seen in the ten years that had passed.

In one case, a young gentleman approached me and began to say, Arturo, how are you?

God, it's so great to see you, remember me?

And for a second, I really had a blank.

I mean, I really did not remember him.

Now of course we have to consider that within those ten years I had gone to

college, I had been to Brazil for

two years, I had been back onto graduate school, TAed many classes.

And so I met lots of different people in different contexts.

And so I had all these different people I'd met.

And at that moment, I did not remember this young gentleman.

I had no memory of him.

And then he told me, yeah, we used to talk in the locker room before swimming class.

And I, and I had a small glimmer of a memory of him.

And it troubled me because he remembered me quite well and I didn't remember him.

And so I thought about it some more, and then over time I

began to remember that yes, of course, we had seen each other in the locker room.

I hadn't thought about the locker room before swimming class for

many, many years.

And I had a slight recovery of this memory.

And over time, I began to actually remember him better.

And in fact if I met him today, many years after high school,

I would probably remember him better than I did ten years after high school.

And that indicates something very interesting about memory, right?

That a recovery of a memory at some point can actually solidify that memory later.

And so maybe one simple type of thing that arises from Bjork's research is that,

if you really want to remember something, you should almost forget it.

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