Initiating and Institutionalizing Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics in Nepal: A Report

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Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention?

“…It may inform Norwegian institutions in policy decisions while designing foreign language curriculum and understanding school students' requirement of foreign language choice (Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, 2019;Norwegian National Centre for Foreign Languages in Education, 2020). This study also contributes to the study of Nepalese multilingualism and cognition (Pathak, 2022a), besides throwing more light on trilingual processing among language learners (Festman, 2019;Stoehr et al, 2023).…”

“…1 (top left-hand side) were overlayed by remapping and directing them to response no. 2 (top right-hand side) for the direct comparison, without affecting the data as both the response locations were symmetrical to each other in the standard coordinate space (Freeman & Ambady, 2010;Pathak, 2022a;Pathak et al, 2021). Only the correct trials were included for the final analysis to eliminate potential biases due to different data cleaning ways Zhou & Krott, 2016).…”

Activating Three Languages Simultaneously in Mental Lexicon: An Investigation of Nepali – English – Sanskritparallel Language Activation

“…Even the components of psycholinguistics that is taught is only theoretical and there is no infrastructure yet for conducting empirical experimental research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. A small move in this direction has started at the Central Department of Linguistics where this researcher has to establish Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics Lab with the aim of training the students with the concepts, methodology, tools and techniques of conducting research in this emerging scientific area to initiate and institutionalize this field of academic potential (Pathak 2022). Some substantial steps in the direction of initiating and institutionalizing Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science have already been taken in Tribhuvan University, the leading university in Nepal.…”

“…Pathak and Dahal (2010) for the first time explored the situation of dyslexia in a Nepali sample of school students. Pathak and Pathak 2018 presented a paper on bilingual Stroop effect on high and low proficient Nepali -English bilinguals in the 39 th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal held during November 26 -27, 2018 which was subsequently published (Pathak & Pathak 2022). This was the first study from Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics Lab in which an intern had made an academic conference presentation after learning the method of doing such research in this lab.…”