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Dr. Swinney's research is focused on understanding the nature of language and cognitive processing in normal and neurologically-involved populations. The goal of this work is to develop detailed, moment-by-moment, knowledge of the way in which information is integrated during on-going language comprehension. The work involves the integrated use of a range of 'on-line' (real-time) measures of language processing (Reaction-time, ERP, and fMRI) to examine both the behavioral details and the brain-bases involved in such processing. Recent publications have centered on examinations of behavioral and neurological bases of speech segmentation, lexical access, co-referential processing, inferential processing, and exogenous parameters of speech on comprehension, during language understanding. This work has recently culminated in a ‘Modes and Parameters’ approach to understanding language processing.