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The Language & Brain Lab focuses on the study of language & speech, including its perception, production, acquisition, and cognitive and neural processing.

 Simon Fraser University
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Joined January 2012
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When it comes to hearing words, it's a division of labor between our brain's two hemispheres

Scientists have uncovered a new 'division of labor' between our brain's two hemispheres in how we comprehend the words and other sounds we hear -- a finding that offers new insights into the proces...

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Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech

In a scientific first, neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech. This breakthrough, which harnesses the power of speech synthesizers and...

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sciencedaily.com/releases/20… Some cool brain stuff! 🧠 sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Brain region discovered that only processes spoken, not written words

Patients in a new study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but not verbalize them. For instance, if a patient in the...

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sciencedaily.com/releases/20… This study shows that the brain structure of expert phoneticians is different from the average person. We must have some pretty interesting brains in our lab! 🧐 sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Why Henry Higgins could tell his barrow girl from his fair lady

When Professor Henry Higgins instructed Eliza Doolittle that it was "Ay not I, O not Ow, Don't say 'Rine,' say 'Rain'", he was drawing on years of experience as a professor of phonetics. But new...

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Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep

Researchers showed that we can acquire the vocabulary of a new language during distinct phases of slow-wave sleep and that the sleep-learned vocabulary could be retrieved unconsciously following...

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Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep

Researchers showed that we can acquire the vocabulary of a new language during distinct phases of slow-wave sleep and that the sleep-learned vocabulary could be retrieved unconsciously following...

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Opinion | What a Person’s Body Language Means (Published 2019)

The signs are all there, right in front of you. Including that weird thing with the thumb and pinky.

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Here's a link to an interesting study using eye-tracking! We also do eye-tracking in our lab through the FaceScan project with the LangDev Lab! news.mit.edu/2018/gauging-la… news.mit.edu/2018/gauging-la…

Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

An MIT study indicates eye movement can reveal the proficiency of people reading English as a second language.

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Do you ever use the "not face"? Scientists say it's universal...🤔 sci-news.com/othersciences/a… sci-news.com/othersciences/a…
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How we’re making the tools to connect isiXhosa and isiZulu to the digital age

Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.

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internationalphoneticassocia… "IPA charts from 1900 to 1951 are now available..." internationalphoneticassocia…
Happy New Year! 🎉 What better way to kick off the new year than with some new research? Here's an article about vowels and second language learners... sciencedirect.com/science/ar… sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like finals week...and Christmas 🎄 Happy holidays from the LAB lab!
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Brainwaves synchronize to the speed of talking, influencing the way we hear words

The speed at which someone speaks influences the way we hear upcoming words. But, until recently, little was known about the neural mechanisms behind this phenomenon. A recent study reveals that our...

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Now I know we're a human research lab, but this is very important... sciencedaily.com/releases/20… sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Scientists chase mystery of how dogs process words

Experimental results suggest that dogs have at least a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught, differentiating words they have heard before from those they have...

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It’s getting pretty spooky in the lab right now. We even have a Stranger Things phoneme wall 😱
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It's all about context! sciencedaily.com/releases/20… sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Researchers find a neural 'auto-correct' feature we use to process ambiguous sounds

Our brains have an 'auto-correct' feature that we deploy when re-interpreting ambiguous sounds, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings point to new ways we use information and context to...

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Just something fun ☺️ youtu.be/ZXyWwirLfcg youtu.be/ZXyWwirLfcg
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Bilingualism: How we turn on and off languages

A team of researchers has uncovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages, a finding that provides new insights into the nature of bilingualism.

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