Using Fractal Dimensionality to Measure White Matter Integrity as Affected by Age and Bilingualism

This project is done in collaboration with Dr. John Anderson at the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab at Carleton University. I currently explore cognitive aging effects on white matter integrity using MRI data to quantify the brain’s complexity. The goal is to identify whether bilingualism protects against cognitive decline as previously shown in the literature. Preliminary results suggest that bilinguals’ white matter integrity declines with age.The next step is to compare bilinguals’ cognitive aging to monolinguals.