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Bilingualism may save brain resources as you age. Neuroscience News & Science Daily.

A new article published by Neuroscience News and at the Science Daily shows that bilingual people are great at saving brain power.

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Specific language disorder: when words are not understood. Última Hora.

Lucía Buil’s doctoral dissertation has been an item of the news at a local newspaper, Última Hora. This dissertation, which has been defended recently at the Balearic Islands University, has been following a group of children,  between the ages 6 and 12 from various schools in Mallorca with a specific language disorder.  

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I+DEL organizes the VIIth International Conference of Language Acquisition

Our research team was honoured to organize the VIIth International Conference of Language Acquisition, which took place from September 7th to 9th 2016 in Palma de Mallorca.

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Learning oral and written languge at school: Ramón Bassa describes the latest innvoations within this field.

Ramón Bassa, with the collaboration of different experts among which we find multiple members of the I+DEL research group, publishes two books with reflexions on the process of learning oral and written languages at early ages. This is the result of years of interdisciplinary work, by which knowledge from the experience in education and from […]

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A research study from the UIB awarded by the Speech Therapists Society. The UIB journal.

The research project of professors Lucía Buil, Eva Aguilar and Daniel Adrover on language acquirement difficulties receives the Doctor Jordi Perelló award. For more information you can read the article on the UIB journal.

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Research shows children with SLI to have delayed access to reading and writing. El diari de la UIB.

I+DEL research team at the Balearic Islands University has done a research focused in children with SLI. University newspaper has talked about it. The full coverage is available here.

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PhD. Daniel Adrover participates in the book “Aspects of Multilingual Aphasia”

Publication edited in English by Martin R. Gitterman, Mira Goral and Loraine K. Obler, all experts in neurolinguistics, plurilignuism and aphasia. This book summarizes the findings of the scientific research on cases of aphasia in people who speak more than one language. The vast majority of research on this pathology has been traditionally centred on […]

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PhD. Daniel Adrover collaborates in the book “Neuropsychology of the prefrontal cortex and the executive functions”

The prefrontal cortex is the region in the brain located at the anterior part of the frontal lobes, and it is mainly in charge of the so-named executive functions. These functions, generally speaking, allow us to coordinate our own thoughts and actions with our internal goals. Given that a great amount of knowledge has been […]

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Loss of first language in bilingual patient after damage in the basal ganglia.

The loss of the first language in a bilingual patient after suffering damage in the basal ganglia. Aita Menni, Hermanas Hospitalarias.