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.