Nadine Charanek, a member of the Linguistic Neurodiversity Lab (PI Dr. Olessia Jouravlev) presented her research at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (aka the Psychonomics). The Psychonomics is the largest cognitive psychology conference, attended by more than 3,000 researchers each year.
Nadine gave a talk titled “Visuospatial working memory of serial order in bilinguals, monolinguals, and chimpanzees: The possible influence of language on recall”.
Nadine found that bilinguals performed worse than monolinguals in the visuospatial working memory task if they used a verbal strategy. In contrast, those bilinguals who used a non-verbal strategy in completing this task outperformed monolinguals.
