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Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab
Fields: Bilingual autobiographical memory; cognitive anthropology and cognitive aging; language and medicine
Faculty: Robert Schrauf
The Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab conducts both experimental and qualitative/ethnographic research on the following topics: (a) experimental: bilingual autobiographical memory and emotion, retrieval mechanisms in bilingual autobiographical memory, (b) qualitative/ethnographic: cognitive anthropology and aging, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Alzheimer's disease, health literacy, medical interpreting in clinical contexts, cultural contexts of cognitive aging.