Studies involve:

• Uncovering the subprocesses involved in both language comprehension and production
• Studying language in all its forms, like reading, listening, speaking, signing, and in different contexts, from reading single words to conversing to integrating language with other information sources while learning
• Understanding early language skills in infants and children, all the way through changes in language processing in healthy older adults and those with cognitive impairments
• Learning about native and second-language users who speak English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi-Urdu, and ASL, among others
• Developing literacy, including in young and middle-aged adults

ILLI researchers look at individual differences, use interventions, and study applications using the fields of education, artificial intelligence, engineering, and brain-machine interfaces.

Their tools involve observational, behavioral, eye-tracking, computational, corpus-based, signal processing and neuroimaging work.

Labs within this group

• Cognition and Brain Lab 
• Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab 
• Language Production Lab