Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

Image of a brain with many different words contained within the different sections describing various sensations, actions, and thought processes

Psycholinguistics is the study of how language is used and represented in the mind, and how other cognitive capacities support language processing. Neurolinguistics is the study of how the brain enables representation and processing of language. Both fields use experimental and statistical techniques from psychology and neuroscience. 

Personnel

Dustin Alfonso Chacón

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Predictive processing, syntactic processing, morphological processing, South Asian languages, case and agreement, filler-gap dependencies

Steven Foley

Visiting Assistant Professor

Incremental sentence comprehension, case and agreement, singular they, cataphora, person–case constraints, relative clauses, languages of the Caucasus

John Hale

Arch Professor in World Languages and Cultures

Computational linguistics, Cognitive science

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The UGA Linguistics department congratulates Zahin Hoque on his receipt of a research award from UGA CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities). Only 500 of UGA’s 30,000 undergraduate students are awarded the $1,000 scholarship.

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