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    Laboratories

    The laboratories in the Joint Doctoral Program focus on language learning throughout the lifespan. This includes research on first language acquisition, bilingualism and signed languages. Studies focus on typically developing infants, children, and adults as well as individuals with Aphasia, Focal Lesions, Hearing Impairments, Down Syndrome, Language Impairment, Williams Syndrome, and other developmental disorders which affect language.Methods include behavioral testing, on-line assessments, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Evoked Response Potentials.
    • Aphasia Research Laboratory, Language and Cognition Laboratory (UCSD)
      David Swinney, Ph. D., Director
      on-line studies of lexical processing, studies of aphasia
    • Bilingual Research Lab (SDSU)
      Vera Gutierrez-Clellen, Ph. D., Director
      early development of bilingualism, unbiased assessment of bilinguals with and without language impairment
    • Center for Research in Language (UCSD)
      Jeff Elman, Ph. D., Director
      on-line studies of language and disorder; cross-linguistic studies of typically developing individuals as well as those with aphasia and language impairments
    • Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab (SDSU)
      Donna Thal, Ph. D., Director
      early predictors of risk for language impairment, use of behavioral methods and parent report to explore relations between early language and non-linguistic cognition
    • Language Processes Lab (SDSU)
      Lewis Shapiro, Ph. D., Director
      on-line studies of language processing in individuals with aphasia and
    • Neuropsychology Lab (SDSU)
      Beverly Wulfeck, Ph. D., Director
      on-line studies of sentence processing in children with and without language disorder
    • Cognitive Development Lab (UCSD)
      Joan Stiles, Ph. D., Director
      relations between early cognitive and brain development, use fMRI and behavioral methods to test typically developing children, children with focal lesions


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