A bold man in a light purple shirt and glasses seated in profile wears an EEG electrode cap — dozens of numbered small plastic white rounds connected to each other with a net of white wires.

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Jonathan Peelle wears an electrode cap that records the electrical activity of the brain. Peelle is a director of the Speech, Hearing and Communication (SHAC) lab, located in ISEC. The lab uses a combination of behavioral testing and brain imaging to study how the brain supports communication, speech and auditory processing. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

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