Welcome to the Center for Research on Language (CRL)

CRL brings together faculty, students and research associates who share an interest in the nature of language, the processes by which language is acquired and used, and the mediation of language in the human brain.

CRL is housed in the Cognitive Science Building on the Thurgood Marshall Campus at the UC San Diego and boasts an interdisciplinary academic staff comprised of specialists in a wide variety of fields:

  • Cognitive science
  • Communication
  • Communication disorders
  • Computer science
  • Developmental psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Neurosciences
  • Pediatrics
  • Psycholinguistics

Experiments

What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and non-linguistic auditory processing: evidence from fMRI and lesion data

Frederic Dick, Ayse Pinar Saygin, Gaspare Galati, Sabrina Pitzalis, Simone Bentrovato, Simona D’Amico, Stephen Wilson, Elizabeth Bates, & Luigi Pizzamiglio

Restricted access: Please contact one of the above for access to the experiment details and materials.

International Picture Norming Project

Anna Szekely, Thomas Jacobsen, Simona D'Amico, Antonella Devescovi, Elena Andonova, Daniel Herron, Ching Ching Lu, Thomas Pechmann, Csaba Pléh, Nicole Wicha, Kara Federmeier, Irina Gerdjikova, Gabriel Gutierrez, Daisy Hung, Jeanne Hsu, Gowri Iyer, Kathryn Kohnert, Teodora Mehotcheva, Araceli Orozco-Figueroa, Angela Tzeng, Ovid Tzeng, Analía Arévalo, Andras Vargha, Andrew C. Butler, Robert Buffington, Elizabeth Bates

Restricted access: Some of the experiment details and materials are restricted. Please contact Anna Szekely or Thomas Jacobsen for access.

Developmental Preferential Looking Environmental Sounds

Alycia Cummings, Ayse Pinar Saygin, Liz Bates, Fred Dick.

Spanish Verb Inventory (SVI)

Semilla Rivera, Elizabeth A. Bates, Araceli Orozco-Figueroa and Nicole Y. Y. Wicha.