20726 - Invited Symposium: Advances in Cultural Neuropsychology [ ]

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20726 - Invited Symposium: Advances in Cultural Neuropsychology

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Invited Symposium: Advances in Cultural Neuropsychology
Desiree Byrd

This symposium will present new advances in research on cognition and cognitive assessment among ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse people. There has been substantial progress in conceptualizing and measuring the effects of race, culture, and language on cognitive outcomes, as well as improving the accuracy of neuropsychological tests in detecting cognitive impairment in diverse people. The symposium will present research that leverages the complex experiences of diverse people in order to uncover basic knowledge about neural correlates of cognition, cognitive development, and cognitive flexibility. For example, life course approaches to measurement of racial, economic, cultural, and educational experiences will be shown to advance our understanding of cognitive aging. This session will also include research on cognition and cognitive test performance among bilinguals, which sheds light on the role of culture in early cognitive development. Research on whether bilingualism provides a reserve against cognitive decline in the face of brain pathology will be presented. Speakers will also provide creative solutions to methodological challenges that arise in the assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse people that will improve the quality and utility of neuropsychological measures for all people, not just cultural or linguistic minorities