New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB)
Research Group Summary
The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour is a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the study of human language. The researchers come from a wide range of disciplines, forging connections across linguistics, speech production and perception, language acquisition, language disorders, social cognition, memory, brain imaging, cognitive science, bilingual education, and interface technologies. This highly interdisciplinary team is working together toward a truly unified understanding of how language is acquired, produced and understood in its social and physical contexts. The Institute collects audio, visual, articulatory, neural and behavioural data on how individuals speak, listen, interact, and otherwise use language in their day-to-day lives. With this data, we study the foundations of language as an integrated, multi- modal, statistical system operating in a social, physical and physiological context. We study the relationship between language and other modes of cognition and behaviour, including memory, gesture, facial expression and gait. We are interested in language development throughout the lifespan, and in how non-language information (social, physical, contextual, visual) affects individuals' speaking and listening behaviours. Our research is organised around four primary language themes: acquisition, variation and change, ageing, and bilingualism (with a focus on English/Māori bilingualism).
Key Contact
Members - UC Staff
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Dharam Vir Ahluwalia: Researcher
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Andy Cockburn: Researcher; Computer Science and Software Engineering
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Jack Copeland: Researcher; Philosophy
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John Christop Dalrymple-Alford: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Gail Gillon: Researcher; Faculty Office (Education, Health and Human Development)
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Nichol Catherine Gully: Researcher/community liaison; School of Teacher Education
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Jennifer Hay: Director; Linguistics
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Tami Jean Howe: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Lucy Carolyn Johnston: Theme leader (language as social cognition)
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Kate Kearns: Researcher; Linguistics
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Jeanette King: Theme leader (bilingualism); Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies
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Thomas Klee: Deputy Director/Theme leader (acquisition)
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Koenraad Kuiper: Researcher; Language, Social and Political Sciences
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Margaret Anne Maclagan: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Megan Jane McAuliffe: Theme leader (ageing); School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Brigid McNeill: Researcher; School of Teacher Education
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Catherine Moran: Industry liaison; New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour
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Ewald Neumann: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Gregory Alan O'Beirne: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Heidi Quinn: Researcher; Linguistics
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Natalie Anne Rickard: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Michael Paul Robb: Researcher; Faculty of Education
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Amy Scott: Research collaborator; Child Well Being Institute; School of Teacher Education
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Dean Sutherland: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
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Anne Katherine van Bysterveldt: Member; School of Health Sciences
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Richard Watts: Theme leader (neural foundations of language); School of Physical & Chemical Sciences
Members - Non-UC Staff
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Susan Foster-Cohen: Researcher; The Champion Centre
Subject Area: Disciplines