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Scholars Convene At Moody College For Bilingual Symposium
Scholars and students from across the country convened at the Moody College of Communication May 8-10, 2016 to participate in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders’ bilingual symposium and research blitz to further work in the field of bilingual language acquisition, including Dr. Karen Emmorey. Read more here.
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Congratulations To Kristen Secora For Defending Her Dissertation!
On April 25, 2016, Kristen Secora defended her dissertation, “The impact of individual differences in social skills and executive control on visual-spatial perspective-taking in signers and nonsigners” to earn her doctoral degree! Congratulations, Dr. Secora! Congratulations on a fantastic dissertation and an extremely successful graduate career! I am proud of you and your accomplishments, and…
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April 18 – Lecture by Dr. Gabrielle Jones!
LLCN welcomes Dr. Gabrielle Jones, Assistant Professor in Department of Education Studies at UCSD, as our next LLCN Lecture speaker on Monday, April 18th at noon in our lab. Lecture will be in ASL without interpretation. Gabrielle Jones, PhD Assistant Professor Education Studies University of California in San Diego “Learning to read Chinese from a…
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LLCN welcomed attendees of the EHDI annual meeting to tour the lab and learn about our research.
Attendees of the 2016 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Meeting held in San Diego toured LLCN and met with researchers to learn more about our innovative research and its implications to help deaf children to read.
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LLCN participates in the AAAS Family Science Days, February 13-14th in Washington, D.C.
LLCN participates in the AAAS Family Science Days, February 13-14th in Washington, D.C. as part of the Linguistic Society of America. Family Science Days exhibitors bring their favorite hands-on science activities to share with all attendees. You use language all the time, but what do you know about how it actually works? See what speech looks…
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Researchers honored for 10 years of service to SDSU!
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Emmorey, Distinguished Professor and Laboratory Director, Dr. Stephen McCullough (pictured), Lucinda O’Grady Farnady (pictured), and Allison Bassett for 10 years of service to SDSU and the SDSU Research Foundation!
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Congratulations, Dr. Zed Sevcikova!
Congratulations to Dr. Zed Sevcikova on receiving the “Best Presentation by an Early Career Researcher” awarded by Sign Language Linguistics Society (SLLS) for her poster “ASL-LEX: A lexical database for American Sign Language” (pdf) presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR12) conference in Melbourne, Australia.
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Isidore Niyongabo Presents on October 21, 2015 as Part Of Our Fall Lecture Series!
Fall LLCN Lecture Series speaker, Isidore Niyongabo, gives a presentation on “The Complexity and Dynamics of Sign Language use in the East African Deaf Leadership Conference” on Wednesday, October 21st, Noon. Light refreshments will be severed. Open to the public. This presentation will be in ASL without English interpretation. RSVP to cogrady@sdsu.edu
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The Union-Tribune names San Diego ‘brainiest’ city in the US and Dr. Karen Emmorey is mentioned for her contribution.
“San Diego will be the brainiest city in the country for the next few days. The Society for Neuroscience is holding its annual convention here, hosting almost 30,000 people. Most of them are researchers who broadly and narrowly work on two of the hardest questions in science: Exactly how does the brain work? And how…
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Dr. Karen Emmorey gives a public lecture, The Signing Brain: What Sign Languages Reveal about Human Language and the Brain at New York University.
“Sign languages are understood by the eye rather than by the ear and are produced by the hands rather than by the tongue. Are the same key brain areas involved in producing and comprehending spoken and signed languages?” See the full article on the NYU | Abu Dhabi site!