St Edmund Hall’s Centre for the Creative Brain would like to invite you to our Trinity Term event: “Language Arts: books, comics, and language learning”.

We are delighted to welcome Sean McCarron who will be giving a talk about how the human brain learns language through reading. Sean is a DPhil student and comic book illustrator, whose research focuses on second language acquisition, the language of books, and how the brain learns through stories.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sean McCarron is a DPhil student in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford’s ReadOxford research group, where he works under the supervision of Professors Kate Nation and Victoria Murphy. Prior to this, he was a member of the Reading Lab at McMaster University’s ARiEAL research centre, and he has also worked as a cartoonist and illustrator. Sean’s research focuses on print exposure, bilingual proficiency, reading comprehension, and vocabulary knowledge, with an emphasis on the language of books and how the brain is built for stories. By exploring how reading for pleasure can impact second language skills, Sean aims to improve our understanding of the means through which language learners can become highly proficient speakers of their target language.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL! We welcome undergraduates, postgraduates, artists, scientists, and all curious people. The Centre for the Creative Brain is generously endorsed by St Edmund Hall and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford.