From the College of Psychology…

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Jung (June) H. Hyun, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC is a Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling at NSU’s College of Psychology. Dr. Hyun and colleagues recently published an article titled “Foreign-born counselor educators’ professional identity development.” This study found that integrating cultural identity and early career mentorship played a significant role in foreign-born counselor educators’ professional identity development. It implied the importance of inclusion and belonging and early career mentorship for their success.

 

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Mercedes Fernandez, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at NSU’s College of Psychology. Dr. Fernandez recently published a paper which links bilingualism to frontal-lobe neural activity and executive function. Executive function is a set of skills that help us to focus attention, to maintain and manipulate information in short-term memory, and to manage multiple tasks. Her work was the first to reveal that the degree of linguistic balance (equivalency of proficiency between the two languages) moderates both the brain’s electrical activity and executive function. Her project was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Manuscript title, authors, and link

Fernandez, M., Banks, J.B., Gestido, S. & Morales, M. (2022). Bilingualism and the executive function tradeoff: A latent variable examination of behavioral and event-related brain potentials. Journal of Experimental. Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxlm0001186

NSF grant title

Does Learning a Second Language Enhance Inhibitory Processes and Executive Function?

 

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