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Psychology
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Adult language processing, the influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, the interface between language and vision
Philosophy
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Philosophy of language and mind; origins of language; theory of mind; pragmatics/semantics
Linguistics
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Language Acquisition, Slavic Linguistics, Bilingualism and Language Attrition
Philosophy
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Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science
Linguistics
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Linguistics (Syntax)
Linguistics
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Phonological theory, Historical Linguistics, Romance Linguistics
Psychology
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Making memories in the mammalian brain; the physiology and function of the hippocampus and interconnected forebrain circuits
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
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Discourse, acquired language disorders
Psychology
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Language emergence, homesign, cognitive development, number cognition, sign language structure, language acquisition
Psychology
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: EEG, ECG, Learning, Memory, Executive Functions
Mathematics
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Mathematical logic, computability theory and reverse mathematics
Psychology
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human cognition, and how brain development and core neurocognitive processes impact language acquisition
Psychology
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Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; Models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability
Psychology
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Ecology of language, speech perception from a direct-realist theoretical perspective; compatible theoretical approach to speech perception
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
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cochlear implants, speech perception, electrophysiology, aging
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
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Speech perception, language development, bilingualism, ERPs
Psychology
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Development of prelinguistic communication
Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatics, Evolution of Communication, Animal Communication
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
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SLI, language disorders, reading disabilities, phonological disorders
Psychology
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social and communicative behavior, infant development, development of caregiving behavior
English
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Emotion, simulation, and narrative; beauty and aesthetic response; social neuroscience, politics, and literature
Linguistics
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Phonological Theory, SL Phonology, Evolution of Language, Phonological Acquisition, Phonetics-Phonology Interface
Educational Psychology
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Creativity measurement; Creativity and social justice; Creativity and its relationship to other constructs (such as personality, intelligence, and motivation); Creativity theories; and Creativity and Mental Health
Linguistics
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Semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface
Linguistics
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Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Psychology
Literatures, Cultures, and Language
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Philosophy and literature; aesthetics; literary theory; postcolonial studies; poetry (19th and 20th century French, francophone African, American, British, Latin American); Islamic studies (pre-Islamic poetry; Quranic studies; art and aesthetics; Islamic legal and political theory; African Islam); German romanticism
Psychology
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Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurogenetic Approaches
Psychology
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Auditory Neuroscience, Dynamic Systems
Linguistics
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Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition, Structure and Acquisition of American Sign Language
Philosophy
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Representation, philosophy of mind
Psychology
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Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience of language; computational modeling
Psychology
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Behavioral neuroscience, physiology, learning, memory aging
Psychology
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Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behavior
Computer Science & Engineering
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Artificial intelligence, robotics, computing education
Physiology & Neurobiology
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Understanding of the neural mechanisms controlling communication behavior
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
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Aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging.
Psychology
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Speech perception, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, aphasia
Psychology
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Language representation, language acquisition, language in developmental disorders, cross-linguistic comparisons
Psychology
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Behavioral neuroscience of social communication including vocalizations
Psychology
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Reading, word identification, and morphology, Implicit and explicit memory, Connectionist networks and dynamical systems
Psychology
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Neurochemistry and Behavior
Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Cognitive Science, Bioethics, Philosophy of Science
Economics
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Industrial organization & antitrust, experimental economics, auction theory
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
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The influence of enriched or impoverished experiences on linguistic and cognitive function
Linguistics
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Child Language Acquisition, Comparative Grammar, Models of Language Processing
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
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Language development; Specific Language Impairment
Linguistics
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Syntactic representations and operations
Psychology
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Dynamical systems theory, artificial neural networks, language (structure, processing, change, learning), sentence processing, artificial grammar, recursion, experimental semiotics, theory of computation.
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
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Speech perception, spoken language processing, perceptual learning, dyslexia, hearing impairment
English
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Shakespeare, performance, memory, and skill.
Cultures, Literatures, & Languages
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Cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory applied to cinema and art
Cultures, Literatures, & Languages
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Early language development in “normal” and “exceptional” circumstances, second language acquisition, pragmatics, brain development
Anthropology
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Ritual, cooperation, and the interaction between cognition and culture
Psychology
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Semantic memory/neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition