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...
Anqi’s Graduate Student Travel Grant
Congratulations to Anqi Hu, who received a College of Arts and Sciences Competitive Graduate Student Travel Grant! This summer, she will join Chunming Lu, an expert in neural synchronization and communication, at State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and...
Neuroscience Symposium
Our graduate student Yi-Lun Weng presented a poster on neural responses to global and local probabilities in statistical learning at the University of Delaware Neuroscience Symposium. This was a day-long symposium dedicated to neuroscience and brain sciences research...
Happy Holidays!
Lab members, left to right: (Back row) Nicolo Bautista, Anqi Hu, Diana Rios, Abigail DeJohn, Dr. Julie Schneider (Front row) Dr. Zhenghan Qi, Hannah Stetson, Dionysia Saratsli, Violet Kozloff Happy holidays from the QLAB! We are so grateful to the many children and...
Fall Conferences, Part 2: Psychonomics
An presented our two statistical learning posters from this fall (here and here) at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society this weekend in New Orleans. The QLAB was represented alongside 1,221 other posters and 300 papers at the conference. We were...
Fall Conferences, Part 1: BUCLD
The QLAB had a wonderful time at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Dr. Qi, An and Violet were all present. We presented a poster on statistical learning in reading impairment and reading development, as well as a poster on...
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Krystal Mendez, a new QLAB research assistant, attended the University of Delaware's Undergraduate Research Symposium on Thursday. Krystal joined the QLAB this summer through the Delaware INBRE Summer Scholars program. You can see her presentation on native language...
Out-of-State Visitors
A huge thank you to our first out-of-state family for joining us in the lab! These brothers visited Delaware for two days, playing games in our brain camera and heading home with pictures of their brains. The family says: "[The boys] were so excited to participate in...
Summer Is Here!
It's summertime, and the QLAB is enjoying the sunshine at the Co-op Farmer's Market! What better way to learn about your brain than with an armful of fresh produce or a sweet snack? Grab a bite, support local farms, and try your hand at our language game! Find us...