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Science 11 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5677, p. 1592
DOI: 10.1126/science.304.5677.1592a
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Figure 1 It's SYNFACE--a computer-generated talking face that "listens" to speech coming down a phone line and repeats it for deaf telephone users to lip-read. This British-Swedish collaboration is just one of the multidisciplinary research projects being folded into the new Centre for Human Communication at University College London (UCL) that was officially launched last week to foster collaboration among fields as diverse as psychology, child health, engineering, and computing.

Phonologist Moira Yip, co-director of the new center, says the fields of speech, language, and communication are "exploding" because of advances in genetics and brain imaging and an "increasingly multicultural world." For instance, cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott wants to work with phonologists to find out why Mandarin Chinese speakers seem to use more of their brain when listening to their native language than do English speakers. In another cross-disciplinary project, researchers at UCL are comparing language acquisition in normal children and those with language disorders using theoretical linguistics, measurements of brain activity, and genetic analysis.

CREDIT: ANDREW FAULKNER/UCL




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