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Projects in language processing within cognitive and neuroscience research explore how the brain comprehends, produces, and interprets language. These studies investigate the cognitive mechanisms and neural pathways involved in understanding spoken and written language, generating speech, and constructing meaning. Researchers use methods such as functional MRI, EEG, and behavioral experiments to examine how language processing unfolds in real time, how it develops across the lifespan, and how it varies across individuals and languages. Projects may also focus on bilingualism, language disorders, and the impact of brain injury or neurodevelopmental differences on language function. This research deepens our understanding of how language is organized in the brain and informs educational and clinical interventions for supporting communication.
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- Collaborative Research: The developmental course of cerebral lateralization for space and languageProject Abstract/Summary One of the fundamental organizing principles of the brain is hemispheric specialization, where one side of the brain supports a specific behaviors cognitive process more than the other. Previous studies of adults have shown specialization for language processing in the left hemisphere and visual-spatial abilities in the right hemisphere. However, young children seem to use both sides of the brain more equally and do not show specific cognitive impairments after one-sided brain damage. This project uses behavioral testing… Read more: Collaborative Research: The developmental course of cerebral lateralization for space and language
- CAREER: The Effect of Trial-Level Lexical Entropy on Language ProcessingProject Abstract/Summary Understanding and producing language is so commonplace that we may fail to appreciate the complexities involved in them. Intrinsically meaningless speech sounds and letter shapes hit our eardrums or eyeballs, and, through a series of processing steps are turned into meaningful ideas in our heads. We can do this despite the fact that the linguistic input that we receive is not perfect; we understanding language in noisy environments, when faced with idiosyncratic factors such as accents, we can… Read more: CAREER: The Effect of Trial-Level Lexical Entropy on Language Processing