Welcome to the Neuroplasticity and Language Lab (NLL)!
We are a psycho/neurolinguistic research lab at UW Linguistics. Our research examines how neuroplasticity and early language environment interact to shape language and brain development, with a specific focus on deaf individuals with varying early language experience. With a focus on the processing mechanisms of language learning as associated with early language experience, our research also contributes to a processing-based account of language learning that highlights the biological foundations of human language processing capacity.
Our research is highly interdisciplinary, with insights from language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, developmental sciences, and cognitive neuroscience. We adopt various methods to explore our questions, including linguistic analysis of longitudinal and elicited production data from children and adults, behavioral psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging methods (DTI, structural MRI, MEG).
Undergraduate students interested in joining the lab can apply to the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (LURAP).
Interested in participating in our research? You can fill in the interest forms below. We will contact you if you fit our research criteria! We are currently looking for deaf and hearing signers at all proficiency levels, as well as hearing non-signers.
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