We conduct research on the cognitive and neural basis of language processing. The underlying question we seek to address is: What makes human language special? More specifically, why are adults able to understand language with ease despite the daunting computational problem posed by language processing? Depending on their interests, undergraduates who join the lab will participate in one of the following two projects:
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN HUMAN NAVIGATION. People use subtle acoustic, (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Center for Cognitive Sciences, SAS - Computer (...)
Computer Science and Engineering, Cognitive Science, (...)
Marine diatoms are single-celled, eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms that produce roughly 20% of the oxygen on the planet and play a central role in the global carbon cycle. Our lab is broadly interested in understanding the ecophysiology of diatoms and blends concepts in physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry with marine ecology and oceanography.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are natural by products produced during photosynthesis and are essential as signaling molecules that regulate (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SEBS - Inst of Marine & Coastal Sciences, SEBS (...)
Aquatic ecosystems , Biology, Cell & Molecular (...)
Honey bees are disappearing mysteriously. Many do not return after they leave their hives. Without honey bees, we will not get honey and, more serious, since fruit trees and flowering plants are not pollinated, we do not have fruits and vegetable crops. What if we could make flapping robots, of the size of honey bee and at a cost affordable for farmers, which can fly and pollinate flowers? Noninvasive surgery allows doctors to get into our body without cutting us. What if we could make flapping (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
Engn - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Bioengineering, Computer (...)
Opioid addiction represents a major health crisis, affecting an estimated 1.7 million people in the United states alone. In 2017, almost 50,000 people died of opioid overdoses. An important link exists between pain, depression, and opioid abuse but the exact nature of this relationship is unclear. An important piece of information for understanding this relationship is data from behavioral models, which can provide insight into the overlapping features of pain and depression. Moreover, these data (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
Psychology, Addiction, Neuroscience
The Firestein lab investigates how factors during pregnancy contribute to risk for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders in children. The lab studies how maternal, fetal, and placental physiology shapes brain development and impacts risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. There is an opportunity to contribute to a project that aims to examine how atypical levels of hormones and extracellular vesicles during pregnancy are associated with infant and child development. Further this projects (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
RBHS - RWJMS
Behavior , Behavioral Science, Biology, Children , (...)
