{"id":41,"date":"2016-04-04T10:41:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:42:00","slug":"neurophysiological-investigations-of-arabic-an-eeg-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/neurophysiological-investigations-of-arabic-an-eeg-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurophysiological Investigations of Arabic: An EEG study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>The project focuses on the processing of Arabic sentence structures. It aims to shed light on how the brain constructs meaning out of Arabic sentences in real-time, and how the mechanisms involved are similar or different from processing other languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We specifically intend to examine tense &amp; agreement, subject-verb, noun-adjective, reflexive-antecedent, determiner-noun, and noun-adjective agreement processing in healthy speakers, by manipulating linguistic factors such as word order, animacy, verb type, subject type, derivational nature of plurals and adjectives &#8230;etc.<\/p>\n<p>This will be done through the Electroencephalogram (EEG). The EEG is the electrical activity of the human brain that can be recorded\u00a0using electrodes fixed at the scalp. It includes the rhythmic variations in voltage that are elicited due\u00a0to the various functions of the brain and the variations in voltage that directly reflect the response of\u00a0the brain to various stimuli, including linguistic stimuli. These tiny changes are also known as ERPs (Event-Related Brain Potentials), which are\u00a0time-locked to\u00a0internal or external events or stimuli such as reading or hearing a word, looking at a picture, listening\u00a0to a tone and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, with the accuracy of their temporal resolution, ERPs allow us to study language processes as they unfold in real-time because the\u00a0processing is being continuously recorded, and\u00a0any word can be time-locked and the response to the\u00a0stimulus can measured at all stages of processing.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;60&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; img_size=&#8221;500&#215;400&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;]<em>Significance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The results of this study will help clinicians detect patterns of language impairment in Arabic speaking patients or of language delay in atypically developing children. To a limited extent, it will also assess recovery in these populations. Furthermore, language educators could employ the insights gained from our results to track the progress in the acquisition of grammar by learners of Arabic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]The project focuses on the processing of Arabic sentence structures. It aims to shed light on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}