Floor van den Berg
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PhD candidate in Psycholinguistics @univgroningen | Cognitive and psychosocial effects of #bilingualism and #languagelearning in #aging | @BALAB_RUG
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https://rug.nl/staff/f.a.van.den.berg 21-10-2019 09:01:01
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This week four of the BALAB PhD candidates visited Atlanta to finally present at the Cognitive Aging conference. After the amazing conference we also had some time for sightseeing! #CAC2022 🧠 Cognitive Aging Conference Floor van den Berg Jelle Brouwer, PhD Mara van der Ploeg Saskia Nijmeijer
The call for papers at #aila2023 is now live! Submit your paper in our special track on "Language Learning Never Gets Old: Investigating the cognitive and psychosocial effects of third-age language learning", w/ Merel Keijzer, Jelle Brouwer, PhD, Floor van den Berg
Two languages in one mind have remarkable consequences for our attention, creativity and likely also healthy ageing. The same can be said about three language-related labs under one roof ❤️ Interlab meeting No.3🇳🇱🇬🇧! BALAB Groningen and Speech Lab Groningen meet Bilingual Brain Lab in Amsterdam.
Today BALAB members presented at #ISBPAC2022: Floor van den Berg who studied changes in episodic memory in older adults w/ MCI after a language course & Jelle Brouwer, PhD who studied the relationship between speaking Frisian and social wellbeing.
Heel hartelijk ontvangen vandaag door mijn nieuwe collega’s bij NWO-domein SGW (Inactive). Ik heb heel veel zin om de komende zes maanden in dit team aan de slag te gaan!
Als je vandaag in #Groningen bent, vergeet dan vooral niet bij het #Letterenfestival langs te komen bij het Harmoniecomplex. Er zijn veel activiteiten en presentaties over het onderzoek bij Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen, waaronder presentaties van ons lab over gezond ouder worden met taal!
Straks zal ik voor stichting Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan een lezing geven over het onderzoek dat Floor van den Berg en ik hebben uitgevoerd in Merel Keijzer's VIDI project! Ik kijk er ontzettend naar uit. OGJG Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen
New paper alert🎉! Emma van Kampen Floor van den Berg , Jelle Brouwer, PhD, and Merel Keijzer recently published a qualitative study in Social Sciences & Humanities Open. ⬇️Link to paper⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ⬇️A summary in 4 tweets⬇️
Geïnteresseerd in hoe nieuwe dingen leren goed kan zijn voor het brein? 16 februari 10:30-11:30 geven we namens het CogFlex onderzoek een workshop in Forumbibliotheek de Wijert. Meer informatie ⬇️ bit.ly/CogFlexWorkshop #HealthyAging Forum Groningen Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen
We're all incredibly happy and proud that BALAB PI Merel Keijzer won the Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research! 🎉 You can read an interview with Merel about language as a form of therapy here! rug.nl/let/onze-facul… University of Groningen Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen
On Thursday, October 19th from 12.00 - 5.00 pm, the Centre for Research in Language Development throughout the Lifespan University of Essex is organizing an online workshop on teaching languages to older adults. More information can be found here: essex.ac.uk/events/2023/10…
The comprehensive and insightful #ISB14 keynote by Bilingual Brain Lab reminded me of how exciting my research field is and how much there remains to be discovered about the (aging) bilingual brain. 🧠
This week, three of the BALAB PhD candidates presented at #ISB14 in beautiful Sydney, Australia! @ISB14MQ Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen ⬇️The following thread will summarize each talk⬇️
Very happy that this chapter, co-authored with Merel Keijzer, Floor van den Berg, and Mara van der Ploeg was recently published. Thanks for the nice collaboration!