Recently, three of the QLAB’s undergraduate research assistants, Lauren Voso, Emily Cohen, and Veronica Foster, presented their work at Northeastern’s RISE conference. RISE (Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Entrepreneurship) is an expo for research and creative projects done at Northeastern University. 

Emily Cohen’s poster shows the effects of social context on word learning for children with and without autism spectrum disorder, as part of the SPLASH project.

Veronica Foster’s work investigates the impact of social context and visual cues on word learning, also as part of the SPLASH project.

Lauren Voso’s project is on the neuroanatomical development of the human language system, as part of the BLAST project. Her preliminary results found that there were few significant differences between adults and children in language regions of the brain structurally, despite functional differences found in previous investigations.