Effect of Word Etymology on Language Learning in Bilinguals and Monolinguals and Neuroimaging Differences Using fNIRS

The poster will include information on how I got to select my study and what is the purpose of it. Along with this the poster will be showing the differences of reaction time between English words and non-words with Latin or Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) roots. With in this, I will show my behavioral experiment using an E-Prime program to measure task accuracy in addition to reaction time while participants are being expose to Latin and Anglo-Saxon root words. This will aso include graphs to illustrate the differences between these two groups. In addition, this poster will show the methods and implications used to get to the conclusion.