Marie Coppola and other UConn researchers want to understand the science behind how early access to language affects learning in deaf and hearing children.
Read more about their research, methods and goals in this UConn Today article!
Graduate student Russell Richie’s prelim paper accepted into The Mental Lexicon journal!
Russell’s paper, titled “Functionalism in the lexicon: Where is it, and how did it get there?”, initially written as one of his prelims, has been accepted into a thematic issue titled “New Questions for the Next Decade”, and will also be published in a book with other articles and commentaries. Many thanks to Marie and other faculty who helped the paper along!
Research Assistants Rachael McCollum and Therese O’Neill Awarded PCLB Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant
Two of the Language Creation Lab’s undergraduate research assistants, Rachael McCollum and Therese O’Neill, have been awarded the PCLB Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant. Rachael’s project is titled “The impact of language experience on the development of the number representations in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing children”, and Therese’s project is titled “Investigating social perspective-taking in effective communication and language regularization.” Both projects will be advised by Dr. Marie Coppola. The grant will provide funding for Rachael and Therese to complete their projects in the upcoming year.
Congratulations Rachael and Therese!
New article profiles the research of Lab Director Dr. Marie Coppola
The article is titled “The Case for Bilingual Deaf Children” and can be read here.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Jessica Contreras for Earning her Master of Science in Experimental Psychology at RIT!
Jessica Contreras, a Developmental Psychology PhD student and member of the Language Creation Lab, recently completed her Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her thesis investigated the relationship between language and cognition for Deaf individuals with cochlear implants, focusing on factors such as executive function, proficiency in English, proficiency in ASL, age of cochlear implant, age of exposure to ASL, and socioeconomic status. Congratulations Jessica!
Russell Richie, Matt Hall, Sarah Lodge, Megan Brown, and Dr. Marie Coppola Named Runners-Up for Best Poster at EvoLang 2016
Congratulations to Russell Richie, Matt Hall, Sarah Lodge, Megan Brown, and Dr. Marie Coppola, whose research was named as one of two runners-up for best poster at the 2016 EvoLang conference! Entitled, “The impact of communicative network structure on the conventionalization of referring expressions in gesture,” this project asks how people come to agree on what to call things. Their behavioral experiment demonstrated that groups of people reach agreement faster when all possible pairs communicate compared to when all communication is channeled through one central hub. The work was funded by an IGERT Innovation award to Russell Richie. You can read their paper here!
Emily Carrigan Receives Commendation for Teaching Excellence
Congratulations to Language Creation Lab graduate student Emily Carrigan for receiving a commendation from the Provost for Teaching Excellence!
Dr. Marie Coppola and Deanna Gagne Present at TISLR Conference
This January, Dr. Marie Coppola and Deanna Gagne presented at The 12th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR12) in Melbourne, Australia. Continue reading
Call for papers: 2nd Annual Int’l Conference on Sign Language Acquisition
UConn to receive fMRI machine
In a huge boon to the Cognitive Science community, UConn will get an fMRI machine on the Storrs Campus. If purchase and installation of the machine proceeds according to plan, the machine should be ready for use by early 2015. Read this UCONN Today post for more information.