Human language seems to be uniquely human and is profoundly important to our species.  The mission of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language lab is to learn more about the cognitive and neurophysiological underpinnings of human language. We are specifically interested in the neurocognition of language comprehension in fluent native speakers and in adult second language learners.  Our primary method involves recording event-related brain potentials (ERPs) from the scalp while a person reads or listens to language.  We also use the University of Washington's new, state-of-the-art neuroimaging facilities for structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)  studies.   

 

Our lab has received  generous funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health, and from the National Science Foundation.

 

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Dept. of Psychology     Box 351525     University of Washington    Seattle, WA 98195

E-mail:  erplab@u.washington.edu     Phone:  (206) XXX-XXXX   Fax: (206) 685-3157