Director: Michael McCloskey
Research Topics
Research in the lab focuses on normal and impaired cognitive functioning in the areas of:
- Reading, spelling, and writing
- Visual perception and cognition
We are also interested in:
- Memory and amnesia
- Numerical cognition and dyscalculia
- Foundational issues in cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive science.
Our goals are to:
- Understand the mental representations and processes underlying these cognitive functions
- Understand how these representations and processes are disrupted when the brain is damaged or fails to develop normally
- Apply the knowledge gained about normal and impaired functioning to the development of effective remediations
Approaches
We bring a variety of methods to bear on these issues, including:
- Cognitive neuropsychological studies of brain-damaged adults
- Cognitive neuropsychological studies of children with learning disabilities
- Behavioral studies of normal children and adults
- Computational modeling
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Event-related potentials (ERP)
