Memory and Language Laboratory (MALL)

From MallWiki

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient, at others, so bewildered, so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control. We are, to be sure, a miracle every way, but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem particularly past finding out." Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The Memory and Language Laboratory (MALL) is situated in the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University. The members of the MALL study the basic processes of memory and language performance using a combination of behavioral, computational modeling and neuroimaging methods. We are interested in questions such as:

How do you extract meaning from utterances?

How do you recognize when and where you have encountered things?

How is your knowledge organized?

How do you recall lists of items?

How does the structure of sentences impact on your ability to process them?

The lab is also involved in a number of applied projects in the areas of defense, education and information technology. In particular, we are developing technologies to assist intelligence agents to process large amounts of textual information, to automatically grade essays, to assess and promote vocabulary development and to model how users interact with websites.

For inquires regarding the lab you can contact the director, Dr. Simon Dennis, at simon.dennis@gmail.com.