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Neurotechnologies to Help the Body Move, Heal and Feel Again

Project 7: Context effects on sublexical processing (Dial, SlAB)
Young subject listening to a sentence while EEG responses are recorded.
Young subject listening to a sentence while EEG responses are recorded.

Background: We are using event-related potentials, specifically the N400, to examine the influence of context on sublexical processing as a function of aging and presence of aphasia. Younger and older adults and adults with aphasia will listen to sentences while EEG responses are recorded. Sentences are either meaningful (The ice was very cold) or non-meaningful but with a word that sounds similar to the meaningful word (The ice was very gold). The goal of this project is to identify changes in the use of context across the lifespan and in aphasia to better understand how language is processed in these populations.

Multiband Stimulus Envelope

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University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
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Email: reu_brain [at] egr.uh.edu (reu_brain[at]egr[dot]uh[dot]edu) (Neurotechnologies to Help the Body Move, Heal and Feel Again)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award #2150415 (REU site), #2137255 (IUCRC BRAIN REU Supplement), and #1827769 (PFI REU Supplement).
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