 Dr. Aaron Newman
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How is it that deaf people learn language without ever hearing a sound? Why are young children so much better than adults at learning a second language? How can we help people speak again after a stroke has robbed them of this ability? Canada Research Chair Dr. Aaron Newman is looking for answers.
Dr. Newman specializes in the integration of multiple brain imaging techniques, to shed new light on how language is implemented in the brain, and how the organization of language is affected and altered by experiences over a lifetime.
Dr. Newman studies adults who have learned a second language at different ages, in order to determine why children generally learn a second language better than adults. Other research includes the study of new treatment for the rehabilitation of language following stroke, and studies how brains can be “rewired” due to deafness, and how such rewiring affects patients’ abilities to adapt to treatments such as cochlear implants.
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