
UoH project on bilingual training for cognitive functioning
The Hindu
‘It extends experimental approaches to bilingual illiterates from low socio-economic strata for the first time’
The Institute of Eminence (IoE) project of the University of Hyderabad on ‘Long-term literacy training and its impact on cognitive functioning’ was inaugurated at the Government Primary School, Serilingampally. The project sanctioned to Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences (CNCS), School of Medical Sciences, through the IoE scheme aims to administer long-term literacy training in Kannada and Telugu to illiterate participants and investigate its impact on cognitive functioning. This ambitious and challenging project involves an intensive training programme on a large number of participants and a wide array of tasks for measuring cognitive functioning.More Related News