Welcome to the Cognitive Science Lab at the University of Richmond. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary study of how the mind works, involving approaches from cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and neuroscience.

The purpose of our site is to promote cognitive research and teaching within the University and beyond, and to provide an avenue for internal and international collaborations among faculty, students, and researchers.

Research in our lab focuses on the representation, processing, and acquisition of language. Current research projects include the development of self-organizing neural network models of language acquisition, the study of bilingual language learning and representation, and crosslinguistic studies of language processing with neuroimaging techniques. Other ongoing projects include the compilation of the Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics and the development of web resources for psycholinguistics. For more details about these projects, please click on items on the right.