Mission Statement (Officina Edictum) The focus of our research is how meaning is acquired, represented, and used during language comprehension. Research in the lab encompasses basic word recognition, categorization, syntactic processing, and sentence and discourse comprehension. We employ computational, neuropsychological, developmental, and psycholinguistic methodologies to pursue these ...

Departmental News: Congratulations to Dr. Robin DiMatteo, who has been awarded the 2001-2002 Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky has received the John Templeton Positive Psychology Award for 2002 for her significant scientific contributions to the developing field of positive psychology. UCR ranked #4 in social sciences among public institutions (click for pdf of Press-Enterprise ...