Undergraduate RISE and Research Symposium 2025
The QLAB applauds our undergraduate research assistants, Emily Cohen, Janet Liu, Ananya Arvind, and Abigail Demosthene, who presented their work at the Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Entrepreneurship expo for research and creative projects at Northeastern on...
CNS Annual Meeting 2025 Highlights
The QLAB was honored to attend the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, which was held in Boston this year! These meetings function to bring together researchers from around the world to share the latest studies in cognitive neuroscience. Three of our...
Highlights from BULCD 2024
The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BULCD) is one of the largest linguistics conferences in the world, hosting over 500 language acquisition and development researchers and students. The QLAB was honored to attend the 49th annual iteration of...
Language Learning in Children with Autism Presentation
Recently, Dr. Zhenghan Qi and Ph.D. student Katherine Trice presented at the Boston Ability Center about current research on language development in children with autism. More details about the talk are available here. A full recording of the discussion can be viewed...
Our new NIH-funded project – PLAUSL
Predicting Language and literacy growth in Autistic children Using Statistical Learning How do little ones decipher patterns in speech and print? And do these processes wield their transformative influence on language and literacy growth as children step into the...
SRCD Conference Highlight
SRCD (short for Society for Research in Child Development) has many different facets of research on how children develop their language, cognitive skills, academic skills, and more. It also focuses on the environmental factors that impact child development. We were...
MoLA Conference Highlight
Recently, members of our lab attended the first ever Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) conference at Duke University! This international conference was created and attended by some of the top names of our field, as well as many fantastic graduate students and...
QLAB Undergraduate Posters at RISE Expo!
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...
Lab Member Highlights Fall 2022
We are very excited to share great accomplishments within our lab this Fall. Congratulations to PhD student Anqi (Jojo) Hu for being one of the two winners of the 2022 Society for Language Development (SLD) Student Award for her presentation on the “Greater Plasticity...
Spring 2022 Welcoming New Research Assistants
As the year begins, QLAB is excited to jump into our new projects, research, and discoveries, while sharing our progress along the way. With our new semester also comes four new research assistants who we are excited work with and introduce. Emma Van Emma Van has a...