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We use behavioural experimentation and methods from cognitive neuroscience (TMS, fMRI), investigating spoken and signed languages. Current work focuses especially on
– how differences in modality affect language production
– the role of “secondary” information in language comprehension, such as co-speech gestures and mouth movements in signed languages
– the role of emotion in representation and processing of words
– “what do words mean?"
Principal investigator
David Vinson
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Associate Professor