Research Labs

Adult Language Network Lab

Director: Nichol Castro, PhD
word retrieval, psycholinguistics, aphasia, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, cognitive aging

Child Language Lab

Director: Ling-Yu Guo, PhD
grammar, morphology, childhood, developmental language disorder, cochlear implant(s)

Cognition, Speech Perception, and Auditory Neuroscience Lab

Director: Christopher Heffner, PhD
speech perception, learning, Parkinson's disease, aging, psycholinguistics

Communicative and Assistive Device Laboratory

Director: Jeff Higginbotham, PhD
augmentative and alternative communication, turn-taking, collaborative device use

Hearing Research Laboratories

Bohua Hu, PhD
Wei Sun, PhD, CCC-A
Mishaela DiNino, PhD
Kristina DeRoy Milvae, PhD, AuD
auditory diseases and disorders, bench-to-bedside (animal and human research)

Motor Speech Laboratory

Director: Kris Tjaden, PhD, CCC-SLP
speech intelligibility, articulation, dysarthria, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

UB Language Learning Lab

Director: Alison Hendricks, PhD
childhood, developmental language disorder, cultural and linguistic diversity, diagnostics, eye-tracking