19 Abr. Gary Morgan

Convocatoria de Movilidad de Investigadores Externos – Hasta Junio 2016
de Posgrado
Centro de Estudios
ANEXO B: Información para la difusión del seminario1 Título: The influence of deafness and language on executive function development
Ponente: Gary Morgan
Fecha/Hora: 19 de abril (17:30 a 20:30h)
Lugar: Facultad de Psicología
Contenido del seminario
Ámbito:
Programa de Doctorado en: Psicología.
Línea/Tema de investigación: Procesos psicológicos básicos en aprendizaje y educación.
Breve resumen (max. 150 palabras):
Children’s success in the classroom is a combination of their early development of language, social-emotional
skills and their cognitive control. Studies have suggested that language and Executive Function (EF) are
strongly associated. Deafness provides a unique opportunity to disentangle these skills because in this case,
language difficulties have a sensory not cognitive basis. In this class I will describe how EF and language
interact, how deafness affects these skills and I will outline possible implications of this research for
educational interventions.
Ponente: breve resumen del CV (max. 200 palabras):
Research interests:
 Language acquisition in deaf and hearing children
 Psycholinguistic studies of sign language and gesture
 Developmental disorders of language
 Typical and atypical development of language mediated cognition
 Co-speech gesture in adults and children
Recent publications:
Botting, N., Jones, A., Marshall, C. R., Denmark, T., Atkinson, J., & Morgan, G. (under revision). The
relationship between language and cognitive processes: Deaf and hearing children’s non-verbal executive
function performance is mediated by vocabulary knowledge. Child Development.
Lu, J., Jones, A. & Morgan, G. (2016). The impact of input quality on early sign development in native and
non-native language learners. Journal of Child Language, Special Issue on critical periods.
Morgan, G., Meristo, M. & Hjelmquist, E. (2016). Conversational experience, language and the development
of Theory of Mind. In V. Slaughter (ed). Environmental Influences on Theory of Mind Development: Festschrift
for Candi Peterson. Psychology Press.
Mann, W., Roy, P. & Morgan, G. (2016). Adaptation of a Vocabulary Test from British Sign Language to
American Sign Language. Language Testing
Marshall C, Jones A, Denmark T, Mason K, Atkinson J, Botting N and Morgan G (2015). Deaf children's nonverbal working memory is impacted by their language experience. Front. Psychol. 6:527.
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