Albert Costa

Albert Costa was Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and director of the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group at the Centre for Brain and Cognition. His research focused on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language processing. He is the author of The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language.

What does being bilingual do to the brain?

In this extract from The Bilingual Brain, neuropsychologist Albert Costa explains the differences between bilingual and monolingual brains.