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Researchers at the Word Lab conduct psychological and brain-imaging experiments in order to answer these fundamental questions about how people are able to understand both spoken and written language.
How do we understand language?
How do we recognise individual words printed on the screen?
How do we recognise individual spoken words?
How do we know what these words mean?
Principal investigator
Jennifer Rodd - Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, BSc Psychology Programme Director
