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...

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....

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...

Research Assistant Awards

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...