Workshop “Cognition, language and communication across populations”

Universitat de les Illes Balears en colaboración con el Laboratorio de Adquisición y Procesamiento del Lenguaje de la NTNU, Trondheim

19 de Noviembre de 2021 en el Edificio de Sa Riera, Aula 23

10.00 – 10.45: MILA VULCHANOVA & VALENTIN VULCHANOV (NTNU, Norway) –
Exploring cognition and communication in autism

10.45 – 11.15 coffee break

11.15 – 12.00: DAVID SALDAÑA (USE, Spain) – Executive function and reading
comprehension: the case of autism

12.00 – 12.45: EVA AGUILAR-MEDIAVILLA & DANIEL ADROVER-ROIG (Department of
Pedagogy and Educational Psychology and Institute of Research and Innovation in Education
(IRIE), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) – Relationships between linguistic competence,
executive control, and socioemotional skills

12.45 – 14.00 lunch break

14.00 – 14.45 ESTELA GARCÍA-ALCARAZ (UIB) & JUANA M. LICERAS (University of
Ottawa) -“The Bilingual Advantage” meets individuals with genetic syndromes. The case of
Spanish/Catalan bilinguals with Prader-Willi Syndrome

14.45 – 15.30 KENNY COVENTRY (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, UK) – “Spatial
cognition and spatial language in ageing”

15.30 – Concluding remarks