Research Themes
Our research plan covers a number themes that each combine expertise in multiple departments, methodologies and research area. The strength of this research lies in the close integration between researchers from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, integrative student projects associated with these themes could have transformative effects in a number of sub-fields.
Though individual projects apart of these themes exist, a substantial portion of our work fits into one of the below categories:
- Basic Science to Clinical Applications - integrating insights from working and impaired language systems to find practical solutions for patients.
- Flexible Multilingual Computational Tools - drawing upon underlying similarities to build language-agnostic parsers and translators.
- Language Learning - understanding what the elements we acquire are and how we differ in learning them as children and adults.
- Temporal Dynamics of Language Processing - examining how grammatical knowledge is deployed on-line and the relation between the parser and the grammar.
- Neurocomputational Models of Speech and Hearing - forging the link between auditory neuroscience and phonology.
- Syntax and Semantics: structure and meaning in the mind - applying a strongly mentalistic approach to theories of linguistic structure and meaning, creating robust representational models to define sophisticated generalizable empirical questions.
- Multi-Domain Investigations of Action-Perception Relations - investigating the links between doing and observing, speaking and hearing.