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Iris Berent

Iris Berent All Experts

Professor of Psychology

Expertise
  • language and reading ability
  • nature of linguistic competence
  • psychology of language
Contact
i.berent@neu.edu
617.373.4033

Iris Berent In the Media

  • Los Angeles Times

    Op-Ed: Learning as meditation in a Zoom classroom

  • Scientific American

    How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind

  • Los Angeles Times

    Op-Ed: The real reason we’re afraid of robots

  • Boston Magazine

    Study sheds new light on how the brain processes speech

Iris Berent for Northeastern

  • 03/22/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Iris Berent, Professor of Psychology, gives the 52nd Annual Robert D. Klein Lecture held in the Raytheon Amphitheater at Northeastern University on March 22, 2016. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    Take 5: What makes human language so special?


    In the 52nd annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on Tuesday, psychology professor Iris Berent argued that human language is a product of a specialized biological system, that we are are innately equipped with a language instinct.

    • by Jason Kornwitz   March 24, 2016
  • Language study offers new twist on mind-body connection


    Research from Northeastern professor of psychology Iris Berent and her colleagues finds that spoken language and motor systems are intricately linked—though not in the way that has been widely believed.

    • by Greg St. Martin   February 2, 2015
  • A biological engine for human language


    New research out of Northeastern psychology professor Iris Berent’s lab suggests that humans’ capacity for creating language is encoded in our brains as a universal set of rules.

    • by Angela Herring   April 17, 2014

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