Member Spotlights
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March 30, 2021How to talk to people about climate change
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March 1, 2021Pithy Papers: The influence of gesture, adult porcine cochlea, and translator identity
Welcome to the second instalment of Pithy Papers, where we highlight important and interesting research in the last three months by members from our three research themes, in 150 words or fewer. Find out how gesture influences communication, why it's important that adult porcine…
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February 26, 2021Eight tips to communicate better while wearing a face mask
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January 15, 2021Interdisciplinary 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…
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January 14, 2021Bonny Norton named University Killam Professor [video]
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January 12, 2021Congratulations to our award-winning members!
Language Sciences would like to congratulate our many members who won awards, and received grants and funding, in 2020! Psychology Associate Professor Darko Odic was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and received a Jacobs Research Foundation Fellowship for 2021 –…
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January 8, 2021Baby’s brain and learning over time
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December 9, 2020Looking 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 4, 2020New study explores BC mental health support across cultures
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December 1, 2020Pithy 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. Find out why you should discover how signers of young sign languages converge on shared words…