The Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders has several active research labs run by faculty conducting innovative research. If you are interested in the research opportunities available in a particular lab, please contact the lab director.
Lab Website: LEARN (Language Experience and Acquisition Research at NYU) Lab
Research Interests
- Learning mechanisms underlying language acquisition in children
- The role of caregiver-child interactions in learning language
Lab Website: Psycholinguistics, Aphasia, and Neuromodulation Lab
Research Interests
- Speech and language production in aphasia, apraxia, and unimpaired speakers
- Relationships between speech motor control and phonological processing
- Written language processing in aphasia
- Speech perception and its relationship to production
Lab Website: Motor Speech Lab
Research Interests
- Speech motor development
- Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
- Development and disorders of articulation and phonology
- Craniofacial anomalies
Lab Website: the stuttering and vvariability (savvy) lab
Research Interests
- Variability and neural substrates of stuttering events
- Speech, stuttering, and social-cognitive processing
- Anticipation
Lab Website: Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab
Research Interests
- Relationship between talker processing, linguistic processing, and measures of language, reading, and working memory
- Development of talker processing in children with both typical and impaired language development
- Perception of gender and femininity/masculinity
Lab Website: Biofeedback Intervention for Speech Lab
Research Interests
- Sensorimotor control of speech in children and adults
- Biofeedback intervention for speech sound disorders
- Technology development for speech applications
Lab Website: NYU Swallowing Research Lab
Research Interests
- Understanding the biomechanics of healthy and disordered swallowing
- Investigating age-related changes to swallowing muscles and the associated impact on swallowing function
- Quantifying changes to swallowing after cervical spine surgery
Lab Website: Find Your Voice Lab
Research Interests
- Voice and voice disorders
- Neurogenic communicative disorders
- Dysphagia
Lab Website: CoMM (Communication, Mind, and Memory)" Lab
Research Interests
- Cognitive mechanisms of social communication across the lifespan
- Language-Memory interactions in adults with and without memory impairment (e.g., neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s/Parkinson’s disease)
- Processing of pragmatic language use
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