Spring 2021 Lab Presentation Schedule
3/3/2021 Jojo Hu Statistical Learning and Language Development in Children with ASD QLab PhD Student 3/10/2021 Katherine Trice Word Learning and Theory of Mind Qlab PhD Student 3/17/2021 Brady Robinson fMRI: Statistical Learning Neural Activation in the Language and...
Protocol Release
We are proudly releasing the local versions of our visual and auditory statistical learning tasks for school-aged children written in JsPsych. Stay tuned for our remote version: provided on https://zenodo.org/record/3820620. Find our published protocol on JoVE.
Recent Conference Presentations – Fall 2020
QLab PhD students Yi-Lun Weng and Dionysia Saratsli recently presented their work at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) conference and the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Learn more about their projects below. Yi-Lun Weng...
Fall 2020 Lab Presentation Schedule
QLAB meets at 10:30 am EST on Fridays during the fall semester. We will be hosting a series of talks from lab members and collaborators. Presenter Topic Organization 9/11/2020 Stefan Bartell Dissertation Presentation Practice - Anaphora (Experimental and...
Is left always right?
Many people assume adult language learning takes place in a largely left-lateralized language network -- but is left always right? Checkout a new review by QLab's very own Dr. Zhenghan Qi and Dr. Jennifer Legault addressing this question....
Co-registration of eye-tracking and EEG study at CUNY conference
Our graduate student Yi-Lun Weng presented her co-registration of eye-tracking and EEG research at 2020 CUNY Human Sentence Processing conference!
How Open Science is changing the face of research
As scientists, we are constantly striving for ways to optimize the design, implementation, and dissemination of our work. One of the most promising avenues towards reaching these goals is to embrace Open Science. What is Open Science? Open Science is a research...
How the language we know makes second language learning harder
When we are born we know relatively little about the language we hear. All we hear is a constant stream of sounds, with no start or end point between words. How do we learn to break up this constant speech stream into words? And once we have done this successfully for...
How Does the English-Speaking Brain Learn Sounds in Mandarin?
Dr. Qi's research was highlighted on the University of Delaware's UDaily website! This work focuses on how the brain's hemispheres act when English-speakers learn Mandarin. While the left-hemisphere has long been believed to serve a primary role in language...
Research Assistant Awards
Summer research assistants, left to right: Diana Rios, Hannah Stetson, Krystal Mendez Congratulations to research assistants Diana Rios, Hannah Stetson, and Krystal Mendez for receiving awards to work with the QLAB this summer! Diana was chosen for the Summer Scholars...