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Welcome to Dr. David Corina's Cognitive Neurolingustics Lab
The Corina Cognitive Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory, located at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, is dedicated to understanding the processes of perceiving and producing signed and spoken languages.
Here at the Corina Lab, we hope to learn more about the psychological processes underlying the comprehension and production of sign languages of the deaf. We also explore whether and how it differs from spoken languages and natural actions such as human action recognition and gesturing.
Spoken languages are the dominant communication system used throughout the world. Signed languages are spontaneously-arising natural languages used by Deaf people and there are many different unrelated signed languages throughout the world. The signed language used in the US and parts of Canada is known as American Sign Language or ASL.
Signed languages are not manual translations of spoken languages used by hearing people rather signed languages are autonomous languages that exhibit linguistically complex structures and are fully able to convey abstract concepts. The acquisition of signed language in infants exposed to signing from birth follows a developmental time course similar to that of spoken language. William Stokoe’s ground breaking work in the 1960’s launched the formal studies of ASL in the United States.
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