Science Bar “The Brain and Language Disorders”

Brasserie Le Dôme, 2 Avenue Georges Clémenceau, Montpellier.

Being gifted in language implies the ability to understand someone and respond to them, because language skills encompass both comprehension and expression.
For spoken language, this means being able to move from sound to meaning, from thought words to spoken words, from thought to voice. While these processes are interdependent in terms of learning, society, and culture, they also involve different areas of the brain.

Some language disorders may be caused by abnormalities in the brain that are present from the fetal stage. In this case, cognitive function development is impaired and learning disorders appear. Language disorders can also arise at any age: following a head injury, stroke, or as part of a neurodegenerative disease.

To discuss this topic of science and society, two multidisciplinary experts will answer questions from the audience live:

• Sylvie Moritz-Gasser, PhD in neuroscience, researcher at the Institute of Functional Genomics (IGF), lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine (University of Montpellier), head of teaching at the University Department of Speech Therapy in Montpellier, speech therapist in neurology and neurosurgery at Montpellier University Hospital.
• Aleksandra Nowakowska, Senior Lecturer in Language Sciences at the Praxiling Laboratory, CNRS – Paul Valéry Montpellier University, Scientific Director of the ERDF-ESF project Aphasia and Analysis of Discourse in Interaction: database creation and new methods of exploitation (AADI).

This event will be interpreted in sign language by Des’L Interprétation.
(free admission, subject to availability).

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