The goal of the Developmental Neurolinguistic Lab is to understand the relationship between language and brain development, and later brain organization.
Research projects are in progress that use electrophysiological methods to examine brain processes.
An understanding of the relationship between language and brain development and later brain organization will help explain the nature of developmental language disorders. The goal of the Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory is to understand the nature and underlying causes of childhood language impairments. To this end, we study the relationship between speech perception, the processing of language, and the brain mechanisms underlying language processing in production in young children acquiring language typically and atypically. Dr. James J. Jenkins Professor Emeritus. Research in this laboratory is concerned with understanding the nature of the acoustic structure of speech and how it is perceived by normal hearing adults.