The UC Davis Language Sciences Faculty seek outstanding candidates from various backgrounds who are interested in opportunities for research and scholarly achievement that span the fields of Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. Our research encompasses a broad range of topics including word processing and representation, sentence processing (e.g., priming of difficult syntactic structures; resolution of ambiguous words in sentence contexts, prediction), and discourse processing (e.g., referential processing). Much of our research is performed with young adult monolingual and bilingual readers and listeners, but we also examine language processing in deaf people, older adults, and individuals with schizophrenia. Some of our studies examine individual differences in language processing as a function of variable performance on measures of executive functions (e.g., working memory and inhibitory control), vocabulary knowledge and language experience.
Our research capitalizes on multiple research methods to gain the deepest possible understanding of the linguistic representations, psychological processes, and brain mechanisms that we use to extract meaning from text and conversation. These research methods include eyetracking, the recording of brain electrical activity (ERPs, EEG oscillations), fMRI, as well as a variety of other behavioral measures.
The language faculty and their graduate students and postdocs meet weekly in the language sciences group meetings, a forum that encourages informal presentations of work in progress, plans for new studies or grants, and recent published work from colleagues in our field. We further rely on and interact with our excellent colleagues in the fields of memory, attention, perception, and executive control to study language in the context of these other faculties.
For more information on our language sciences faculty please check out under "people" on this WEBsite. We encourage you to contact faculty that cover areas of research that have your interest.
You can find more information on how to apply at our department websites:
Dept. of Psychology: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/graduate/
Dept. of Linguistics http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/
Many of the cognitive neuroscience faculty are part of the Center for Mind and Brain: http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/
Our fMRI work is carried out at the Imaging Research Center: http://ucdirc.ucdavis.edu/facilities/index.php
Our research capitalizes on multiple research methods to gain the deepest possible understanding of the linguistic representations, psychological processes, and brain mechanisms that we use to extract meaning from text and conversation. These research methods include eyetracking, the recording of brain electrical activity (ERPs, EEG oscillations), fMRI, as well as a variety of other behavioral measures.
The language faculty and their graduate students and postdocs meet weekly in the language sciences group meetings, a forum that encourages informal presentations of work in progress, plans for new studies or grants, and recent published work from colleagues in our field. We further rely on and interact with our excellent colleagues in the fields of memory, attention, perception, and executive control to study language in the context of these other faculties.
For more information on our language sciences faculty please check out under "people" on this WEBsite. We encourage you to contact faculty that cover areas of research that have your interest.
You can find more information on how to apply at our department websites:
Dept. of Psychology: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/graduate/
Dept. of Linguistics http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/
Many of the cognitive neuroscience faculty are part of the Center for Mind and Brain: http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/
Our fMRI work is carried out at the Imaging Research Center: http://ucdirc.ucdavis.edu/facilities/index.php