Karen Emmorey
Professor, Speech Language, San Diego State University
Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
Executive Committee, Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
Biography:
Research Interests
Karen Emmorey’s research focuses on what sign languages can reveal about the nature of human language, cognition, and the brain. She studies the processes involved in how deaf and hearing people produce and comprehend sign language and how these processes are represented in the brain. Her research interests also include bimodal bilingualism (i.e., sign-speech bilingualism) and the neurocognitive underpinnings of reading skill in profoundly deaf adults.
