2022 SECD Research Roundup - Neuroimaging for Language, Literacy and Learning Lab
Kelcey Buck
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03/08/2022
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Assistant professor Yingying Wang discusses the two research projects her lab – Neuroimaging for Language, Literacy and Learning (NL3) Lab – is focused on currently.
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- [00:00:00.000]My research, um, is
- [00:00:01.835]focused on to use advanced neuroimaging
- [00:00:04.804]to understand, uh, neuroplasticity.
- [00:00:07.707]And the neuroplasticity, there's a lot of um
- [00:00:10.677]forms about neuroplasticity. One is due to
- [00:00:13.179]um, for example, brain injury or like uh
- [00:00:16.750]adapting to a new um
- [00:00:19.019]device or learning a new skill,
- [00:00:21.021]um, like reading, uh there's neuroplasticity. So,
- [00:00:24.491]from this line of research, I have
- [00:00:26.292]two main projects right now going on in my lab.
- [00:00:28.728]Uh, one is called, uh, BACIC.
- [00:00:30.897]So, it's Brain Activation of Cochlear Implant Candidates.
- [00:00:34.768]This project aims to understand
- [00:00:37.437]um, the brain
- [00:00:38.805]plasticity
- [00:00:40.206]due to the device called cochlear implant.
- [00:00:43.143]There's lots of individual variance
- [00:00:45.211]um, in the speech perception outcomes after surgery.
- [00:00:49.182]Some individuals who got the cochlear implant really liked it.
- [00:00:52.519]However, some other um
- [00:00:54.287]cochlear implant candidates
- [00:00:55.488]got it and didn't really
- [00:00:57.023]uh like it,
- [00:00:57.791]and then didn't really understand
- [00:00:59.459]more speech than what they had before.
- [00:01:02.328]So, why is that?
- [00:01:03.496]And this project is actually looking
- [00:01:05.331]to the biological reason in the brain.
- [00:01:07.400]Our findings
- [00:01:08.835]could help the future clinicians to
- [00:01:11.438]um giving a better prognosis to their patients
- [00:01:14.474]to understand
- [00:01:15.775]uh who might be a better candidate
- [00:01:17.544]for this, uh, device.
- [00:01:19.279]Um, the other project I wanted to
- [00:01:21.181]talk about is called BIRD Project,
- [00:01:23.516]is Brain Imaging of, um, Reading Development.
- [00:01:27.287]So, when a child learns to read,
- [00:01:29.255]our brain also, um,
- [00:01:30.590]experiences neuroplasticity during that process.
- [00:01:33.860]So, for this specific project
- [00:01:35.261]we are actually interested to look into
- [00:01:37.163]two groups of children.
- [00:01:38.565]Uh, children actually with hearing loss,
- [00:01:40.733]and then children typically developing.
- [00:01:43.303]We wanted to see
- [00:01:44.304]um, how their brains differ
- [00:01:46.172]when they're actually learning to read.
- [00:01:47.907]The results from this project
- [00:01:49.776]can help us
- [00:01:50.877]to understand
- [00:01:51.978]um, why some, um, children with hearing loss
- [00:01:54.247]didn't do well
- [00:01:55.482]uh, when they learned to read
- [00:01:56.983]uh, from the brain perspective.
- [00:01:58.952]Hopefully, uh, both projects in my lab
- [00:02:01.054]can help us to, um,
- [00:02:02.689]advance, uh, the neuroscience
- [00:02:04.424]research in communication disorders.
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