Welcome to the Neuroplasticity and Language Lab (NLL)! We are a psycho/neurolinguistic and child language research lab at the UW Linguistics. Our research mainly examines the roles of early neuroplasticity and language environment on language and brain development, with a special focus on bilingual deaf children. In particular, we are interested in the following questions:

• How does language input interact with early neuroplasticity to establish a highly efficient language network?
• What are the consequences of lacking sufficient and accessible language, especially in the case of early language deprivation among deaf children?
• How does early language environment support deaf bilingual language development?
• What are the roles of  linguistic processing on language development?

Our research is highly interdisciplinary with insights from various fields, including language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, developmental sciences, and cognitive neuroscience. We use a variety of methods to explore our questions:

• Linguistic analysis of longitudinal spontaneous production data from children and adolescents
• Behavioral psycholinguistic experiments, both comprehension and production
• Neuroimaging (DTI, structural and functional MRI)
• Electroencephalography (EEG, MEG, SEEG)

Interested in participating in our research? You can fill in the interest forms below. We will contact you if you fit our research criteria!

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