(Dr. E.M. Frank)

Work in the Adult Neurological Disorders Laboratory is directed toward a better understanding of the neural limitations resulting from Huntington’s Disease and the relationship between these limitations and language impairment.
 

Work in the Aphasia Laboratory seeks to clarify the relationships between brain damage resulting from stroke and language impairment. Both advanced neuroimaging and behavioral techniques are employed.

In this laboratory, children having undergone removal of one cerebral hemisphere are studied in an attempt to clarify the hemispheric specialization and plasticity of language processing.

Research by the Child Language Research Group focuses on the identification of early predictors of language impairment in young children and the later academic consequences of such delays.

Work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory involves advanced neuroimaging techniques to clarify brain-behavior relationships.

Work in the Speech Psychoacoustics Laboratory is directed toward clarifying the mechanisms employed to process speech, and the limitations placed on these mechanisms by sensorineural hearing impairment or cochlear implantation.

Experiments in this laboratory are aimed at clarifying the nature of speech perception and the integration of visual and auditory information in this process.
 

Work in the Voice Disorders Laboratory seeks to elucidate disorders of the speaking voice.

This laboratory is involved in development of novel voice analysis techniques, and the investigation of the clinical utility of these techniques.