Neurolinguistics

Related Faculty

Qi Cheng
Assistant Professor
Richard Wright
Divisional Dean of Humanities
Adjunct Professor Speech and Hearing Sciences

Related Research

Cheng, Q., Roth, A., Halgren, E., Klein, D., Chen, J. K., & Mayberry, R. I. (2023). Restricted language access during childhood affects adult brain structure in selective language regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2215423120.
Cheng, Q., & Mayberry, R. I. (2021). When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood. Developmental science, 24(5), e13073.
Cheng, Q., Silvano, E., & Bedny, M. (2020). Sensitive periods in cortical specialization for language: insights from studies with deaf and blind individuals. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 36, 169-176.
Cheng, Q., & Mayberry, R. I. (2019). Acquiring a first language in adolescence: the case of basic word order in American Sign Language. Journal of child language, 46(2), 214-240.
Cheng, Q., Roth, A., Halgren, E., & Mayberry, R. I. (2019). Effects of early language deprivation on brain connectivity: Language pathways in deaf native and late first-language learners of American Sign Language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 320.
Huber, E., Corrigan, N.M., Yarnykh, V.L., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Kuhl, P.K. (2023). Language experience during infancy predicts white matter myelination at age two years. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43(9), 1590–1599. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1043-22.2023
Weiss, Y., Huber, E., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Corrigan, N.M., Yarnykh V.L. & Kuhl P.K. (2022) Language input in late infancy scaffolds emergent literacy skills and predicts reading related white matter development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:922552. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.922552