The next 'Mind Your Language' seminar will be held on Thursday June 13 at 4 pm in the NeuroCampus Amphitheater of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre (bât. 462, 95 bd Pinel, 69500 Bron).

 

Franck Ramus (senior CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) will be presenting on 'Genetics of language'.

It has long been hypothesised that the human faculty to acquire a language is in some way encoded in our DNA. However, only recently has genetic evidence been available to begin to substantiate the presumed genetic basis of language. We will review data from statistical and molecular genetic studies showing associations between gene variants and language disorders (in particular developmental dyslexia), and we will further reflect on how the human genome builds a brain that can learn a language.