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Language Acquisition
How infants track statistical regularities, why critical periods exist (and how flexible they really are), and what bilingual development reveals about neural plasticity.
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Word Recognition & Lexical Access
From cohort models to interactive activation — how your brain finds ‘hippopotamus’ in milliseconds amid 50,000+ words.
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Parsing ambiguity, garden-path sentences, and real-time ERP evidence showing how expectations guide comprehension before words are even finished.
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Neurocognition of Language
Connecting behavioral data with fMRI, MEG, and lesion studies — what Broca’s area *really* does, and why ‘language centers’ are a vast oversimplification.

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