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Welcome to Language & Cognition at UConn

  • Multi-modal integration
    Recent experience thinking about color influences the activation of color in a subsequent task (Yee)
  • Non-native category acquisition
    A proposed neural system for acquiring non-native phonemes (Myers, 2014)
  • Arnold Tongues diagram
    An Arnold Tongues diagram, depicting bifurcations in a nonlinear oscillator with a periodic external drive
  • Fractal Unfolding (Tabor)
    An unfolding fractal

Research Higlights

  • Congratulations to Garrett Smith, new postdoc!
    Garrett Smith, who received his PhD from the program in the summer of 2018, has accepted a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Potsdam. Congratulations and bon voyage, Dr. Smith!
    Posted on February 11, 2019
  • New Training Grant: Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication
    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Emily Myers (SLHS/PSYC) and Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti (PSYC), who have been awarded a T32 training grant from the NIH/NIDCD. This 5-year award will fund pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees in the cognitive neuroscience of communication. They have created an innovative, interdisciplinary training program that will prepare scholars to bridge research […]
    Posted on February 11, 2019
  • Zachary Ekves
    Congratulations to Zachary Ekves, who successfully defended his general examination and is now a PhD candidate.
    Posted on December 4, 2018
  • Charles Davis, ABD
    Congratulations to Charles Davis, who successfully defended his general examination and is now a PhD candidate.
    Posted on November 26, 2018

About the Language and Cognition Program

Research in the program touches on several major themes:

  • Language processing in typical and disordered populations  (Myers, Magnuson, Rueckl, Altmann, Tabor, Pugh, Yee,  Hancock, Hoeft)
  • Music perception and cognition (Large)
  • Cognitive modeling (Rueckl, Magnuson, Tabor, Altmann, Large, Hancock, Hoeft)
  • Dynamical systems approaches to perception, language and cognition  (Tabor, Large)
  • Neurobiology of language and cognition (Myers, Yee, Magnuson, Rueckl, Pugh, Large, Altmann, Hancock, Hoeft)
  • Semantic memory and concept formation (Yee, Altmann)
  • Reading and reading disorder (Pugh, Magnuson, Rueckl, Hancock, Hoeft)
  • Ecological psychology  (Tabor)
  • Auditory neuroscience (Large)

The Program has close ties to the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA), the Developmental and Behavioral Neuroscience divisions in the Department of Psychology, the Linguistics Department, Speech, Language, and Hearing Science Department, the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) and the Cognitive Science program at the University of Connecticut. In addition, Haskins Laboratories, an internationally renowned interdisciplinary research facility located nearby in New Haven, provides a stimulating environment for research and training.

Important technical resources include UConn's Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC) and the Cognitive Sciences Shared Electrophysiology Resource Laboratory (CSSERL). 

Exciting training opportunities include  the Neurobiology of Language Program, an NSF funded NRT on the Science of Learning and the Art of Communication (SLAC), and an NIH funded T32 on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication.

Events and Announcements

Upcoming Language and Cognition Brownbags:

Location: Arjona 307 (unless otherwise specified)

Time: 3:30-5:00, Mondays

1/28/19 Discussion of L&C program requirements
2/4/19 PAC Faculty Meeting
2/11/19 L&C "Collaborathon" - Editing Website/Program Handbook
2/18/19 Evelyn Milburn (NTNU) - "Idioms show effects of meaning dominance and relatedness similar to those seen for ambiguous words"
2/25/19 Zac Ekves (Dissertation Prospectus)
3/4/19 Charles Davis - "The role of language in two systems for category learning"
3/11/19 Monica Li (Dissertation Prospectus)
3/18/19 Spring Break - No Meeting
3/25/19 Open slot
4/1/19 Marcia Suzuki (UniSkript)
4/8/19 Peter Langland-Hassan (Cincinnati)
4/15/19 Sahil Luthra (Masters Defense)
4/22/19 Adrian Staub (UMass)
4/29/19 Hannah Morrow (Masters Defense)

 

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Phone: 860-486-3515
E-mail: psychology@uconn.edu
Address: Department of Psychology, U-1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
More: http://psych.uconn.edu
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