RESEARCH GROUP

The Brain and Language Cogntion Lab is co-directed by Drs. Cong Liu and Lu Jiao. Work in our lab aims to better understand how people learn and process a second language, which includes 1) neural basis of bilingual processing, 2) neural basis of second language learning, and 3) foreign language effects on social decision. Our work relies on behavioral paradigms and methods from cognitive neuroscience (including EEG and fMRI)... Partially shared neural mechanisms of language control and executive control in bilinguals: Meta-analytic comparisons of language and task switching studies... Sleep-dependent consolidation effects on foreign language word acquisition in a virtual reality environment