Denise Klein, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill -

Dr. Denise Klein takes a Cognitive Neuroscience approach to understanding language by combining behavioural and functional neuroimaging methods to examine how different aspects of processing in the mother tongue and subsequently learned languages are influenced by age of acquisition, proficiency, and the distinctive characteristics of languages. By studying the organization of the language systems of the brain in adults who have had different and specific alterations of language experience, this approach will reveal neural systems that mediate language, and will throw light on the debate about brain plasticity and the specific effects of language experience on the organization of these systems.