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January 19, 2006
Sign language lab
Researchers at San Diego State University will be using technology that helped create movie magic in Hollywood blockbusters like "King Kong" and "Lord of the Rings" to gain insights into how the human mind processes signed languages. The new Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience will be using a host of high tech methods -- including 3-D computer imaging -- to help answer questions about the universal nature of human languages.
The lab and researchers will be a unique group -- with most researchers being members of the deaf community and fluent in American Sign Language.
The lab is funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The grants total more than 4.5 (M) million dollars.
Source: http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0E24D62D-CDD1-4308-B05D-DCD83277AA68
Posted by 4HL on January 19, 2006 12:03 PM
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