Dr. Kazuya Saito - What characterises "talent" for second language speech learning?

This video presents Dr. Kazuya Saito's talk, "What characterises 'talent' for second language speech learning?: Roles of cognitive individual differences" at the 1st symposium at Tohoku University (April 2019). The theme was to interface two different perspectives, education and neuroscience, on a big question, what characterises successful L2 learning?
About Us:
Funded by ESRC Japan-UK Connection Grant (ES/S013024/1), our team organized a series of international and interdisciplinary symposia in Japan and UK featuring a range of world-renowned scholars from education, linguistics, and neuroscience. Please visit the channel description to learn more about our intellectual commitments and our team.
UK TEAM
PI Kazuya Saito (UCL, Education)
CI Adam Tierney (Birkbeck, University of London, Neuroscience)
CI Andrea Revesz (UCL, Education)
JP TEAM
CI Motoaki Sugiura (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Hyeonjeong Jeong (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Yuichi Suzuki (Kanagawa University, Education)
Research Assistant/Special Support Member
Masaru Yamamoto (University of British Columbia, Education)