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Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab
Fields: Bilingual autobiographical memory; cognitive anthropology and cognitive aging; language and medicine
Faculty: Robert Schrauf
The Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab conducts both experimental and qualitative/ethnographic research on the following topics: (a) experimental: bilingual autobiographical memory and emotion, retrieval mechanisms in bilingual autobiographical memory, (b) qualitative/ethnographic: cognitive anthropology and aging, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Alzheimer's disease, health literacy, medical interpreting in clinical contexts, cultural contexts of cognitive aging.
Brain, Language, and Computation Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Ping Li
Post-Docs: Jon-Fan Hu, Jing Yang, Li Zheng, Xuesong Li
Graduate Student: Benjamin Zinszer
Our lab examines the computational and neural processes that underlie the acquisition and representation of monolingual (native) and bilingual (native and non-native) languages. It focuses on the dynamic changes that occur in the language learner and the dynamic interactions that occur in the competing language systems over the course of learning. In particular, our research attempts to identify the computational mechanisms and the neural structures that characterize the interactive dynamics underlying the learning of one or multiple lexical systems (e.g., words acquired early by children and by Chinese-English bilinguals). Researchers in my lab use self-organizing neural networks to simulate lexical development, and use ERP and fMRI methods to investigate the neural mechanisms that subserve lexical organization and competition in the monolingual and the bilingual brain.
Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Maya Misra
Graduate students: Roxana Botezatu, Erica Meeks, Rachel Slavinski, Joanna Hokenson, Liz Willis
The Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory uses converging behavioral and neuroscience methods to study the processes underlying the development of speech and reading. This laboratory houses a 64-channel EEG/ERP system as well as facilities for cognitive behavioral testing and administration of standardized tests. Research in the laboratory focuses on neurocognitive correlates of language processing, emphasizing component skills in reading, automaticity of orthographic and phonological processing, subtypes of developmental dyslexia, and language selection mechanisms used by bilingual speakers.
Child Language Development Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Carol Miller
Graduate Students: Gerard (Trace) Poll
Research in the Child Language Development Laboratory focuses on how language development, and particularly atypical language development, interacts with other cognitive systems. Our studies span many domains and levels of analysis, from auditory perceptual processing to social-cognitive skills. The laboratory is equipped to collect, edit, and analyze high-quality analog and digital audio and video recordings. We have a number of instruments for assessment of language and cognition, and hardware and software for conducting computer-based experiments.
Chip's Phonology Laboratory
Fields: Linguistics
Faculty: Chip Gerfen
Research Coordinator: Tim Proepsel
Graduate Students: Matthew T. Carlson, Mike Shelton
Comparative Communication Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Dan Weiss
Graduate Students: Aaron Mitchel, Katie Chapman, Helen Marie Graves
One of the main goals of the Comparative Communication Laboratory is the study of the mechanisms underlying language acquisition. These include statistical learning mechanisms that have been implicated in the early acquisition of phonetic categories and word boundaries, rule learning, and generalization of learning. Our approach compares the performance of human infants and adults, as well as nonhuman primates (hereafter primates) on a variety of behavioral tasks in order to identify the underlying similarities and differences both between species and within humans across stages of development. In addition, we are interested in studying select topics pertaining to cognition and conspecific communication in primates.
Eye-tracking and Language Processing Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Nuria Sagarra
Eye-tracking Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Processing, Linguistics
Location: 4A Moore Building and 247 Burrowes Building
Faculty: Giuli Dussias
Graduate Students: David Counselman ,
Rosa E. Guzzardo ,
Jorge Valdés Kroff
Post-Docs: Eleonora Rossi
Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory
Fields: Atypical Populations
Faculty: Elina Mainela-Arnold
Research Associates: Adelina Hristova
Graduate Student: Ji Sook Park
The Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory studies cognitive underpinnings of language development and its disorders. It is currently being designed to contain state of the art digital audio and video equipment as well as hardware and software for running computerized experiments. Computer work stations will be equipped for analyzing and editing audio and video recordings, and performing a variety of statistical analysis. A complete selection of testing instruments for assessment of language and cognition will be available.
Language and Cognition Laboratory (The Purple Lab)
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Judith F. Kroll
Research Coordinators: Marck Minnick, Joyce Tam, Tim Proepsel
Graduate Students: Cari Bogulski, Rhonda McClain, Julianna Peters
Second Language Processing Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Carrie Jackson
Students: Alison Eisel, Christine Gardner
The primary goal of the Second Language Processing Laboratory is to investigate how adult second language learners utilize grammatical and semantic information when comprehending and producing words and sentences in their non-native language. How individual learner variables, such as proficiency, one's native language and other previous language learning experiences and working memory, may influence L2 speakers’ processing strategies is also of crucial interest. To that end, the lab contains computers and the necessary software for experimental testing, as well as laptop computers to facilitate off-site data collection.