The Experimental Linguistics and Neurolinguistics research group attempts to understand the organization of language in the brain, through the study of aphasia and developmental disorders and through the study of normal language acquisition, as well as through experimental approaches to language processing. All of these approaches are represented in our research group. The group has a large output and publishes on the national and international level. Members are encouraged to visit at least one international conference a year.
The group operates within the Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) and the Graduate School for Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN). Within BCN, we are involved in the
Centre for Functional Brain Imaging.
Group Goals:
The staff members of the group have organised several international conferences, e.g. international conferences on Aphasiology in 1995 and 1996; conferences on language acquisition and language acquisition disorders in 1995 and 1997; the 1997 Conference of the
Apart from fundamental research in Neurolinguistics, each member aims to make the findings applicable to clinical practice. In the field of language acquisition disorders, this has resulted in a grammatical analysis system for the spontaneous speech of language impaired children. For aphasiology, the approach has resulted in the development and publication of several assessment methods and therapy programs.