Category: Announcements

  • Congratulations to Jordan Weber, Recipient of the Provost’s Award!

    Congratulations Jordan Weber, a graduate of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Master’s Program on receiving the Provost’s Award for Research and Scholarship in the 8th Annual Student Research Symposium for her poster.  Her poster was titled “ASL-LEX: A resource for investigating effects of sign frequency and iconicity for American Sign Language (ASL).”

  • Congratulations, Natalie Silance, Research Award Recipient!

    LLCN lab member and graduate of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Program, Natalie Silance received the Research Award for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice at the 8th Annual Student Research Symposium for her poster “Cross-Language Semantic Interference Effects During Picture Naming in Bimodal Bilinguals.”  Congratulations, Natalie!

  • 2014-2015 LLCN Lecture Series!

    Pat Perry-Sieglen will give a talk titled “Deaf Community Serves: An Overview” on Tuesday, May 19th at Noon. This presentation will be in ASL without English interpretation. Light refreshments served afterwards. See bio on Ms. Sieglen (pdf). Please RSVP to cogrady@sdsu.edu.

  • Dr. Jonathan Udoff presents his dissertation research for the VL2 Student Network Lecture Series!

    Dr. Jonathan Udoff recently earned his doctorate degree in Language and Communicative Disorders from San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego, and has been a part of Dr. Karen Emmorey’s Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (LLCN) for several years. His project explores the interaction between the hand and mouth during the production…

  • ASL-LEX Database

    A subjective frequency and iconicity database for 1000 ASL signs Word frequency plays an important role in language processing (e.g. word recognition, word naming, lexical decision, phonological processing) and might also be an important determinant of language structure. There are many large volume corpora and normative data sets available that spoken language researchers can use…

  • Congratulations, Jonathan Udoff on successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Jonathan Udoff!

    On August 6, 2014, Jonathan Udoff defended his dissertation to earn his doctoral degree!  Congrats, Jonathan!   I am proud that you were my first Ph.D student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program! It’s been great working with you and congratulations, Dr. Udoff!” – Dr. Karen Emmorey   Dear Jonathan, Many congratulations on this huge…

  • Congratulations to JDP student Kristen Secora for being awarded the Kala Singh Memorial Scholarship for 2014-2015!

    Kristen Secora has been awarded the Kala Singh Memorial Scholarship for 2014-2015! Kala Singh was an audiologist who dedicated her life to helping others so that they could achieve their communication goals. She was tragically killed in an attempted plane hijacking at only 36 years old, and this scholarship was established to honor her contributions…