The Bilingualism and Aging Lab (BALAB) was founded under the auspices of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 2018. Its aim is to uncover the intricate interplay between multilingual life experiences and cognitive and psychosocial health across the lifespan, with a special focus on older adulthood. With that, BALAB wants to show the importance of humanities-based research in shaping the research field of healthy aging. Indeed, although the lab’s roots are in Applied Linguistics, the projects embedded within the lab reflect and inform different disciplines and the lab members therefore collaborate across faculties; The lab’s home is the Faculty of Arts, with links to the University Medical Center Groningen and the Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences. Moreover, we collaborate with a number of partners and organizations outside of the university, e.g., Biblionet Groningen, and Pharos.
This website showcases the lab’s projects (past and current), publications to come out of those projects, and the media attention the projects and lab members have received. Crucially, it also gives information about the people involved in the lab. Should you have questions about the lab’s activities or if you are a student looking for research possibilities, please fill in the contact form on this website.
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