Language Sciences at UC Davis integrates expertise from language acquisition to language decay as a function of aging or brain damage, from spoken input to speech comprehension, from letter perception to literacy, from feature to function, from syllable to syntax, from context to comprehension, and from type of language to tests of models of language comprehension and production.  In addition, the proposed training program can offer insights into individual differences in language comprehension as a function of literacy, working memory and executive control, and the relation between memory and meaning.

Our faculty is in the Center for Mind and Brain, and the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology. Core members include: Kathleen Baynes, David Corina, Kathy Graf-Estes, Jack Hawkins, Debra Long, Tamara Swaab and Matt Traxler.

UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain (CMB)

The research mission of the CMB includes investigation of a variety of fundamental issues aimed at answering the fundamental question: How does the mind arise from the biology of the brain? Scientists in the CMB study attention, awareness, cognitive control, language, memory, multisensory integration, music cognition, social cognition, and visual cognition from cognitive neuroscience and developmental perspectives in healthy infants and adults, and in special patient populations.

Links to these and other facilities at UC Davis are listed below:

UC Davis: http://www.ucdavis.edu/index.html

Center for Mind and Brain: http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu

Department of Psychology: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/

Department of Linguistics: http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu

UC Davis Imaging Research Center: http://ucdirc.ucdavis.edu/index.php

Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Institute: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/MINDInstitute/