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Information about the research activities of the Language and Cognition program. Some related links are:
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Members of the Language and Cognition program conduct research on a wide variety of topics. Examples of ongoing projects include:
- fMRI studies of how the brain changes as a printed word becomes familiar.
- Examination of the roles of phonology and semantics in word recognition for languages with different kinds of writing systems (Chinese, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, English).
- Connectionist models of reading in Serbo-Croatian and spelling in English.
- Use of repetition priming and cAsE mIxInG to probe the role of morphology in reading.
- Investigation of speech imitation to test the hypothesis that physical gestures are the fundamantal units of speech perception and production
- Tests of the motor theory of speech perception via fMRI investigation of mirror neurons.
- Analyses of the syntactic properties of Mandarin input to 1-year-old children.
- Evaluation of language intervention for children with autism.
- Construction and empirical testing of a self-organizing model of sentence parsing.
- Exploration of edge-of-chaos phenomena in neural networks trained to process complex languages.
- Case study of the role of musical structure in memorizing a musical performance.
- Using patterns of tempo and dynamic variation to reveal stable interpretive structures in musical performance.
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