Studying what happens when words fail
With renewed NIH funding, cognitive scientist Greg Hickok studies the neural origins of speech disorders.
With renewed NIH funding, cognitive scientist Greg Hickok studies the neural origins of speech disorders.
Health benefits of expressive writing do not apply equally across all cultures, study finds.
UC Irvine psychologist Karen Rook can trace her interest in how loneliness affects the elderly to her childhood, when she saw a much-loved, once-robust grandmother decline markedly after losing her husband. Unable to manage the family farm on her own, her grandmother moved into an apartment. After breaking her hip in a fall, she ended […]
Shifting societal views of sex have changed classification and regulation of sex crimes.
Brian Skyrms, winner of the 2011 Extraordinarius award, discusses the finer points of social contract theory.
UCI sociologist explains how society, culture and public policy influence the division of household labor.
Andrew Chang left a promising engineering career to pursue a doctorate in economics. His research aims to empower U.S. policymakers to create appropriate laws for possible future regulation of the financial sector.
Two generations of Pattersons have been well served by UCI — and now serve other college students.
UCI team seeks to boost number-concept skills – and chances of academic success – among low-income, bilingual preschoolers.
Amid the riot of books, papers, student exams, posters and paraphernalia in John Dombrink’s office at UC Irvine, one thing stands out: little yellow sticky notes he’s tacked onto a row of file drawers labeled “sin.” Dombrink — who once considered the priesthood before finding his true calling — specializes in sin. The professor of criminology, […]