Visual Language Associates

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Daniel Koo

Ph.D. · Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University

Neurolinguistics and language processing: how communication modality shapes linguistic representation in deaf individuals.

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About Dr. Koo

Daniel Koo is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Gallaudet University. He holds a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the functional neuroanatomy of reading and phonological processing at Georgetown University's Center for the Study of Learning.

His research focuses on visual language learning in deaf individuals, the ways linguistic representations are shaped by communication modality, and the analysis and processing of cued and signed languages.

Research

Research areas

  • Adult language processing of cued and signed languages
  • Effect of modality on language processing and cognition
  • Acquisition of cued and signed languages

Selected Publications

Publications

  1. Koo, D., Crain, K., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2008). "Phonological awareness and short-term memory in hearing and deaf individuals…" Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 83–99.
  2. Allen, T., Clark, D., Giudice, A., Koo, D., Lieberman, A., Mayberry, R., Miller, P. (2009). "Phonology and Reading: A response to Wang, Trezek, Luckner, and Paul." American Annals of the Deaf, 154(4), 338–345.
  3. Koo, D., Supalla, T. (2010). "Psycholinguistic study of phonological processes in deaf adult cuers." In C. LaSasso, K. Crain, & J. Leybaert (Eds.), Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children (pp. 67–91). Plural Publishing.
  4. Koo, D., Crain, K., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2010). "Phonological awareness and short-term memory in hearing and deaf individuals…" In C. LaSasso, K. Crain, & J. Leybaert (Eds.), Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children (pp. 323–344). Plural Publishing.
  5. Morere, D.A., Koo, D. (2012). "Measures of receptive language." In D. Morere & T.E. Allen (Eds.), Assessing literacy in deaf individuals: Neurocognitive measurement and predictors (pp. 159–178). Springer.
  6. Weisberg, J., Koo, D., Crain, K.L., Eden, G.F. (2012). "Cortical plasticity for visuospatial processing and object recognition in deaf and hearing signers." NeuroImage, 60(1), 661–672.
  7. Koo, D. (2013). "The signs of a savant: Language against the odds" (Book Review). Sign Language Studies, 13(2), 278–281.
  8. Olulade, O., Koo, D., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2014). "Neuroanatomical profiles of deafness in the context of native language experience." Journal of Neuroscience, 34(16), 5613–20.
  9. Olulade, O.A., Jamal, N.I., Koo, D.S., Perfetti, C.A., LaSasso, C., Eden, G.F. (2015). "Neuroanatomical evidence in support of the bilingual advantage theory." Cerebral Cortex, bhv152 [Epub ahead of print].
  10. Koo, D., Pick, L.H., Garrido-Nag, K. (2016). "Neurolinguistics: Cortex Imaging." In G. Gertz & P. Boudreault (Eds.), The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications, Inc.
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