Neurocognition of Communication Disorders Lab

Earlier this month, the department of Communication Sciences & Disorders celebrated the official grand opening of the CSD Center for Research with a ribbon cutting! Attendees were able to tour the wing while faculty members showcased their lab space and equipment, including the Neurocognition of Communication Disorders Lab!

The graduate students enrolled in Dr. Randazzo's EEG Course have begun to work hands-on with the equipment in our new laboratory space. Their assignment currently involves taking turns running each other on an experiment designed to elicit the Mismatch-Negativity (MMN) event-related potential. The MMN can be both auditory and visual; it is pre-attentive, primarily meaning it can be elicited regardless of whether the subject is paying attention to the sequence. This component arises when an oddball stimulus is presented in a sequence of "standard" stimuli (e.g. "Deviant" 1200 Hz tones that randomly and infrequently appear in a sequence of 700 Hz tones).

Here we have lab member Emily Salerno, along with Lab Coordinator Ryan Priefer, applying one of our 128-channel HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Nets (HCGSN) to a graduate student during this past summer's EEG course offered by Dr. Melissa Randazzo. Dr. Randazzo plans on offering both an undergraduate- and doctoral- level version of the course this upcoming summer. This is part of the department's initiative to concurrently encourage research earlier in students' college careers and further develop these skills in those pursuing doctorate degrees, all through impressive project-based instruction and hands-on experience. These courses will utilize our new, state-of-the-art electroencephalogy lab space in Linen Hall at Adelphi University!

The Communication Sciences & Disorders department's new lab space in Linen Hall is complete! Included is the Neurocognition of Communication Disorders Lab's brand new EEG Acquisition and Reading Station spaces (pictured below) which are now functioning and preparing for research in the Spring! The new space hosts a handful of other laboratories as well, and will become the new hub for research for the Communication Sciences & Disorders department at Adelphi University. Reach out to [email protected] for questions!