News
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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.
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October 27, 2020
Congratulations and thank you to graduate student Steering Committee member, Monica!
Many congratulations to Monica Shank Lauwo and Lauwo George on the birth of their son Makusaro, the newest (and youngest) Language Sciences member! With this new responsibility, Monica will step down from her role as a member of the Language Sciences Steering Committee, representing graduate student members of Language Sciences.
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October 22, 2020
Indigenizing the courtroom in Mexico with Indigenous language interpreters to defeat ‘language superiority’
Dr. Mónica Morales-Good conducting fieldwork in San Miguel Suchixtepec, Oaxaca Imagine defending yourself in a courtroom using an unfamiliar language.