Multilingual Creative Cognition Center: MCCC

Multilingual Creative Cognition Center: MCCC MCCC conducts empirical and educational research of the relationship between multilingualism and creativity.

During the past few decades, research in the area of multilingual cognitive and linguistic development has made tremendous progress and provided evidence supporting the notion that speaking more than one language extends, rather than diminishes, an individual’s cognitive capacities. There is a strong argument in the literature that multilingual development may result in establishing specific archi

tectures of the mind that are likely to promote later cognitive advantages. On the other side, according to the creative cognition approach, creativity is considered a product of normative cognitive functioning. Therefore, increase in general cognitive functioning may facilitate an individual’s creative abilities. If multilingualism results in more elaborate cognitive structures and/or functioning, it may also facilitate creative functioning. Unfortunately, the relationship between multilingualism and creativity received little attention in the scientific community. In about 40 years, this theme had been explored in only 40 studies. Only recently, it was resuscitated and received systematic empirical investigation. The aim of the MCCC is to develop this theme and establish a paradigm of multilingual creativity, which perceives the relationship between these human endeavors from the cognitive, sociocultural, and educational perspectives.

11/03/2020
27/02/2020

Conflict is all too common when intolerant eavesdroppers hear foreign languages being spoken, says Marek Kohn. But multilingualism is here to stay

06/05/2019

New research finds many men view learning a second language as a feminine pursuit.

04/04/2019

Creative Multilingualism is an exciting multidisciplinary project funded by the AHRC under its Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). Seven interlocking research strands investigate the creative dimension of languages – extending from cognition and production through to performance, texts and tran...

27/03/2019

"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."

27/02/2019

Save the date for an upcoming workshop at the University of Pittsburgh in partnership with Joint National Committee for Languages (US) on Artificial Intelligence in the World of Languages.

23/02/2019

Vulnerable groups are being excluded from society due to their lack of ability to speak national languages.

15/02/2019

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14/07/2018

Scholar and novelist Hernan Diaz was born in Argentina, grew up in Sweden, and spent most of his life in the United States. To some degree, he says, he has a foreign accent in every language he speaks. Diaz shares his humble opinion on accent discrimination and “the hospitality at the heart of eve...

14/07/2018

By Dr. Viorica Marian and Dr. Sayuri Hayakawa

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02086/full
24/04/2018

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02086/full

In the present study we experimentally manipulated language switching among bilinguals who indicated to be more or less habitual language switchers in daily life. Our aim was to investigate the impact of forced language switching on originality of produced ideas during divergent thinking, conditiona...

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