Welcome to the Lifespan Communication Lab at Northeastern University! Our research is focused on understanding how the brain supports communication, and how this is affected by changes in cognitive and hearing ability. We study speech and auditory processing in adults of all ages and varying levels of hearing, using a combination of behavioral testing and brain imaging. Some of the brain imaging techniques we rely on are structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, and high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT).