The Project

The NYU Kid-Lang Project is a large-scale research study on a diverse sample of New York City children and adults. The goal of our research is to characterize what basic language processes look like in the brains of children. This is one of the first steps towards a more detailed understanding of brain development, and will create a comparison point for understanding language disorders.

We use magnetoencephalography (MEG), a non-invasive technique, to investigate brain activity. All project data will be made publicly available in a database, where users can download timecourses of activity for specific brain regions during the experiment. Our participant pool primarily consists of New York City public school students from kindergarten to fifth grade and their parents, with additional adult controls.

Our project is supported by the National Science Foundation, the NYUAD Research Institute, and the Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12), which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models, and tools.

The Team

Meet our research team!

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Kid-Lang Project Team.
Kid-Lang Research Team. From left: Sarah Philips (graduate student), Professor Liina Pylkkänen (principal investigator), Maxime Tulling (graduate student), Alicia Parrish (graduate student), Ellie Abrams (research assistant), Ria Geguera (project manager), Miriam Hauptman (research assistant).

Photo Credit: Jin Sup Lee