Arturo Hernandez, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience graduate program at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1996 working with Elizabeth Bates. He spent the following year in a post-doc with Marta Kutas, also at UCSD acquiring additional expertise in Neuroimaging methods. His major research interest is in the neural underpinnings of bilingual language processing and second language acquisition. He has used a variety of neuroimaging methods as well as behavioral techniques to investigate these phenomena which have been published in a number of peer reviewed journal articles. His research is currently funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. He has also received awards from the National Science Foundation to spend a year at the Max Planck Institute for Mind and Brain in Leipzig, Germany. More recently, he was awarded a 9 month fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During this time, he investigated language processing in early child bilinguals using Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Event-related Potentials in collaboration with Professor Isabell Wartenburger and Arno Villringer at the Charite Medical University in Berlin, Germany. Hernandez interest in language learning has also been informed by having learned four languages at various points during his life. He learned Spanish and English simultaneously as a child, spending the school year at home in California and each summer in Mexico. At the age of 20, he spent two years in Brazil during which he became fluent in Portuguese. His more recent visits to Germany have the added benefit of lending personal insight into language learning well beyond the college years.