Deaf Hub Exploring Perspectives: Brennan Terhune-Cotter, PhD

Описание: Do you know what language processing in the brain looks like?

Brennan Terhune-Cotter, PhD is invited to give a presentation, “A Deaf Neuroscientist’s Journey Into the Brain” at the Deaf Hub Exploring Perspectives. The event takes place at Zoom from 12 to 1 p.m. ET on Friday, November 14.

To learn more about Terhune-Cotter, here’s his bio:

Brennan grew up in Washington D.C., where he attended Kendall Elementary and Model Secondary School for the Deaf. He got a bachelor’s degree in behavioral neuroscience and psychology from Randolph-Macon College. He then completed a three-year research project at Rochester Institute of Technology studying the development of visual attention skills in deaf signing children. In 2025, he completed a PhD at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. His dissertation work was on how the neural network for language is activated during signed and written language comprehension in deaf signers, with a focus on how neural activation during language comprehension is influenced by early language experience. In November 2025, he started a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, where he will be studying the neural representations of sublexical structure in British Sign Language fingerspelling and English text.

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