ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Early bilingualism boosts the brain's resilience to dyslexia
Learning to read strongly depends on phonological development that is largely influenced by environmental factors. BIBALANCE will investigate the extent to which the early acquisition of two phonological systems in early bilingualism impacts the organisation of the ‘phonological mind’ and determines the success of reading trajectories. BIBALANCE will examine the mechanism of ‘hemispheric rebalance’ to explain the effects of bilingualism on reading acquisition. We will show that early bilingualism shapes brain dynamics by redistributing attentional weights across the hemispheres towards a highly connected system, and interacts with genetic risks of dyslexia, which is associated with poorly…
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