Interdisciplinary Team to Study How Literacy is Changing in a Digital, Multicultural, and Covid-Hit, World

Image credit: NIRx Medical Technologies, a partner on ‘Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World’

Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World‘, a project led by UBC Language Sciences co-director Professor Janet Werker, investigates how literacy is changing using six core themes and featuring work by academic experts from across the globe. The Neuroimaging theme, led by SASS’s Dr. Tony Herdman, will measure perceptual and cognitive processing while participants perform tasks and use learning materials.

Read more about the project here.