Welcome
to the Magnuson Lab
Cognition and action "in the wild" occur in rich
contexts. Our research explores how information from multiple sources
is integrated in naturalistic tasks, using a combination of empirical
methods and computational modeling. Our primary area of interest is
spoken language comprehension. Our other interests include:
psycholinguistics in general, eye movements, vision (object recognition
and scene perception), categorization, learning, reasoning and decision
making.
Our current focus is on spoken word recognition and learning, both in kids and adults.
Much of this resarch is truly 'basic' -- we are trying to figure out how people can
be such incredibly flexible and adaptive language users. We are also working on
nearer-term implications of this work and related issues for poor child and adult readers (in
collaboration with people at both UConn and Haskins -- Don Shankweiler, Whit Tabor, and Len Katz --
and people at Haskins -- Ken Pugh, Dave Braze, Julie Van Dyke).
Our approach combines conventional behavioral techniques, eye tracking, EEG/ERP, and computational
modeling. See "facilities" for more details.
Most members of our lab are also affiliated with Haskins Laboratories in New Haven.
Our resarch is funded by the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 to Magnuson),
a UConn Research Foundation Large Grant (Magnuson), and a Program Project Grant to Haskins from the National
Institute of Child Health and Development.
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