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Experimental studies in language and other cognitive domains include a range of projects that examine the representational underpinnings of human mental experience. For example, in the language domain, members of our group explore how aspects of comprehension can be explained in terms of specific hypotheses regarding the mental representation of linguistic expressions. More generally these concerns are pursued in studies of how the representational mode of linguistic or spatial information constrains the processes that extract that information from a perceptual signal. In the domain of language production, we examine how humans organize and accomplish the planning of a word, phrase or sentence. Various methodologies are employed by our group to examine issues in language and spatial processing, including eye-tracking and imaging. Equally noteworthy is the degree to which our experimental work draws on complementary approaches to the object of study, including formal, computational, developmental and neuropsychological investigation. |
