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January 15, 2021Interdisciplinary team to study how literacy is changing in a digital, multicultural, and COVID-hit, world
Image credit: NIRx Medical Technologies, a partner on 'Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World' The literacy landscape is changing: Canadians are increasingly reading in a digital format, and speak a language or are from a culture not represented in commonly available reading materials.
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January 14, 2021Bonny Norton named University Killam Professor [video]
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January 12, 2021Congratulations to our award-winning members!
Language Sciences would like to congratulate our many members who won awards, and received grants and funding, in 2020!
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January 8, 2021Baby’s brain and learning over time
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December 9, 2020Looking at brain images to read minds: using fMRI data to predict cognitive processes
Can you look at images of the brain and tell what someone is thinking? Well, not quite. But Language Sciences member and Psychiatry professor Todd Woodward works with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to determine networks in the brain and predict the cognitive processes involved.
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December 4, 2020New study explores BC mental health support across cultures
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December 1, 2020Pithy Papers: Young sign languages, second language frameworks, and micro-dialects
Introducing Pithy Papers, a new Language Sciences series where we highlight important and interesting research in the last three months by members from our three research themes, in 150 words or fewer.
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November 24, 2020Co-director Bryan Gick named AAAS Fellow in 2020
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November 6, 2020Investigating how facemasks affect communication for those with hearing loss
How do facemasks and other COVID-19 preventative measures affect communication for individuals with hearing loss? Language Sciences member Dr. Brenda Poon aims to find out.
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October 27, 2020Congratulations and thank you to graduate student Steering Committee member, Monica!
Many congratulations to Monica Shank Lauwo and Lauwo George on the birth of their son Makusaro, the newest (and youngest) Language Sciences member! With this new responsibility, Monica will step down from her role as a member of the Language Sciences Steering Committee, representing graduate student members of Language Sciences.