Member Spotlights
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January 15, 2021
Interdisciplinary team to study how literacy is changing in a digital, multicultural, and COVID-hit, world
Image credit: NIRx Medical Technologies, a partner on 'Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World' The literacy landscape is changing: Canadians are increasingly reading in a digital format, and speak a language or are from a culture not represented in commonly available reading materials.
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January 12, 2021
Congratulations to our award-winning members!
Language Sciences would like to congratulate our many members who won awards, and received grants and funding, in 2020!
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December 9, 2020
Looking at brain images to read minds: using fMRI data to predict cognitive processes
Can you look at images of the brain and tell what someone is thinking? Well, not quite. But Language Sciences member and Psychiatry professor Todd Woodward works with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to determine networks in the brain and predict the cognitive processes involved.
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December 1, 2020
Pithy Papers: Young sign languages, second language frameworks, and micro-dialects
Introducing Pithy Papers, a new Language Sciences series where we highlight important and interesting research in the last three months by members from our three research themes, in 150 words or fewer.
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November 6, 2020
Investigating how facemasks affect communication for those with hearing loss
How do facemasks and other COVID-19 preventative measures affect communication for individuals with hearing loss? Language Sciences member Dr. Brenda Poon aims to find out.