Chih Yeh

I am a PhD student in the Language Development Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Max Planck School of Cognition, supervised by Prof. Dr. Caroline Rowland and Dr. Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares. My study focuses on how bilingualism affects neurobiological changes in the developing brain.

In my project, we investigate the impact of bilingualism on neurobiological changes in the developing brain, using electroencephalography (EEG) and Event-Related Potentials (ERP) methods. Our focus is on understanding the underlying neural mechanisms of bilingual children's lexical and morphological semantic development, such as how bilingual toddlers build their lexical semantic network of two native languages around the same time. Additionally, we are examining whether factors related to bilingual experience, such as age of exposure, the amount of exposure, and proficiency in both languages, contribute to individual differences during development.