Labs
deaf đť‘Ą lab
The deaf đť‘Ą laboratory conducts research on brain reorganization in the face of altered sensory input, asking what happens to the brain areas and neural pathways associated with visual and multi-sensory processing when auditory input is missing.
While housed in NTID, psychology majors have the opportunity to participate as research assistants on projects in deaf đť‘Ą laboratory.
PLAY Lab
The newly-founded Perception, Language and Attention in Youth (PLAY) Lab aims to better understand how deafness and sign language experience impact cognitive development. They use eye-tracking to measure gaze behavior in infants, children, and adults to address questions about how we learn and process American Sign Language. The PLAY Lab is looking to expand by hiring highly motivated researchers!
PAW Lab
The PAW (Perception & Acquisition of Words) Lab is part of the NTID SPACE center. It is directed by Dr. Allison Fitch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. The lab’s goals concern the inter-relationships between the developing visual cognitive system and language acquisition. Dr. Fitch is particularly interested in understanding how joint attention contributes to language acquisition, and the relationship between early language experiences and low-level visual attention mechanisms. The lab studies these questions primarily in infant and toddler populations, particularly deaf children acquiring American Sign Language.
RITE Lab
The Research of Interpretation and Translation Education (RITE) Laboratory – directed by Dr. Kierstin Muroski - is a new addition to NTID’s Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Ecology (SPaCE) Center. The mission of the RITE lab is to perform socially conscious research of the education of signed language interpreters including broad focus on: students, faculty, curricula, assessment, history, and institutions. The goal of the lab is to create inquiry-based scholarship to inform improvements to the discipline of interpreter education and improve the quality of services to the Deaf and hearing communities. Our current projects include: InterpNET: The first comprehensive open access, interactive digital library of resources for the field of signed language interpreting; Signed Language Interpreter Education: A Comparison of First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Bachelor’s Students, and monthly pedagogical roundtable discussions with undergraduate students.
