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Research Laboratories

The following topics are researched in our laboratories:

  • Speech Motor Control and Emotional Processing

(Principal Investigator: Thomas Marquardt)

Language and Cognitive Aging Laboratory

(Principal Investigator: Joyce Harris)

  • Reading comprehension in normal elderly individuals.
  • Lexical semantic processing in normal elderly individuals.
  • Reminiscence of people and details in normal elderly individuals and in Alzheimer's disease.
  • Comprehension of verbal and nonverbal messages.

Aphasia Research Laboratory

(Principal Investigator: Swathi Kiran)

  • Understanding the cause and nature of various language deficits in patients with aphasia.
  • Online language processing in normal young, elderly, and aphasic individuals.
  • Treatment methods for reading, writing, and naming deficits in patients with aphasia.