Welcome to the Language and Memory Aging (LaMA) Laboratory at the University of Utah.
About UsThe Language and Memory Aging (LaMA) lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. Our research is focused on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language and memory systems across the adult lifespan.
We adopt an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to this work. We draw on theories and methods in cognitive science, gerontology, neuroscience, linguistics, and quantitative and experimental psychology. We use a combination of techniques, including the study of human brain functioning (e.g., event-related brain potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation), eye tracking, human performance, and peripheral physiology (e.g., pupillometry, heart-rate variability). |
LocationOur lab is located on the 10th floor of the Behavioral Sciences (Beh S) building at the University of Utah.
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News
Welcome, Clara! 08.08.2019
Clara Lopes is the newest member of the LaMA lab, joining the Cognition and Neural Sciences PhD program in the Fall. Clara comes to us after completing a post- baccalaureate research position with the Applied Cognition Lab and pursuing a masters in Speech Language Pathology at the University of Utah. We are excited for her arrival!
New Publications 08.08.2019
Check out the newest and most recent Publications from the LAMA Lab.
NSF-GRFP award to Sara LoTemplio! 04.09.2019
Congrats are in order for Sara LoTemplio, who was awarded a prestigious and competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Great work, Sara!
Upcoming LaMA Lab Presentations 08.18.2018
Keep an eye out for poster and symposium presentations from the LaMA lab at the upcoming annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society, the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology!
Congratulations to Vanessa! 08.07.2018
Congrats to Vanessa Srivastava, an undergraduate honors student in the LaMA lab. She was recently awarded a competitive UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) award from the Office of Undergraduate Research to support her undergraduate thesis project on text captioning and listening effort in ESL participants.
Seed Grant on Neuronavigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 06.11.2018
The LaMA lab was recently awarded a University Research Incentive Seed Grant for the project entitled, "A causal test of neural predictive coding in language comprehension: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology and navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation." This project will use MRI-navigated speech mapping to study the shared neural circuits underlying speech production and sentence comprehension in healthy adults. This project will utilize the newly developed TMS research facility at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute at the U.
Welcome, Jack! 05.31.2018
Jack Silcox is the newest member of the LaMA lab. Jack joins us from Loyola University in Chicago, where he completed a masters degree in Statistics. Jack graduated from BYU in 2016 with a B.S. in Neuroscience. He will be joining the Cognition and Neural Sciences PhD program in the Fall.
Clara Lopes is the newest member of the LaMA lab, joining the Cognition and Neural Sciences PhD program in the Fall. Clara comes to us after completing a post- baccalaureate research position with the Applied Cognition Lab and pursuing a masters in Speech Language Pathology at the University of Utah. We are excited for her arrival!
New Publications 08.08.2019
Check out the newest and most recent Publications from the LAMA Lab.
- Payne & Silcox (2019) Psychology of Learning and Motivation features a comprehensive cross-disciplinary review of the literatures on age-related changes in context use in language processing, covering findings from behavioral psycholinguistics, audiology, and cognitive neuroscience.
- Payne et al. (2019) Psychophysiology presents results on the effects of comprehension goals on multiple stages of parafoveal and foveal semantic processing, as measured via event-related brain potentials.
- Schotter & Payne. (2019). Trends in Cognitive Sciences is a commentary on the importance of studying comprehension processes and overt attention control in studies of reading.
NSF-GRFP award to Sara LoTemplio! 04.09.2019
Congrats are in order for Sara LoTemplio, who was awarded a prestigious and competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Great work, Sara!
Upcoming LaMA Lab Presentations 08.18.2018
Keep an eye out for poster and symposium presentations from the LaMA lab at the upcoming annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society, the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology!
Congratulations to Vanessa! 08.07.2018
Congrats to Vanessa Srivastava, an undergraduate honors student in the LaMA lab. She was recently awarded a competitive UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) award from the Office of Undergraduate Research to support her undergraduate thesis project on text captioning and listening effort in ESL participants.
Seed Grant on Neuronavigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 06.11.2018
The LaMA lab was recently awarded a University Research Incentive Seed Grant for the project entitled, "A causal test of neural predictive coding in language comprehension: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology and navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation." This project will use MRI-navigated speech mapping to study the shared neural circuits underlying speech production and sentence comprehension in healthy adults. This project will utilize the newly developed TMS research facility at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute at the U.
Welcome, Jack! 05.31.2018
Jack Silcox is the newest member of the LaMA lab. Jack joins us from Loyola University in Chicago, where he completed a masters degree in Statistics. Jack graduated from BYU in 2016 with a B.S. in Neuroscience. He will be joining the Cognition and Neural Sciences PhD program in the Fall.