Department of Psychology

SCaLa – Speech, Cognition and Language Research Group

Research area

Research in the ScaLa group focuses on speech and language across sensory modalities, from a social- to neuro-cognitive perspective. 

We have a broad understanding of speech and language as 

• conveying and extracting highly complex, often subtle, multifacited information, from emotions, to suppositions, to differences across speakers 
• conveyed and influenced via different senses and across multiple senses 

Our research a priori builds on diverse research perspectives, methods and techniques. Our collaborations cross disciplines and include, among others,  computer science, audiology, multimedia, acoustics, mathematics, signal processing linguistics, and music.

About the research group

The SCaLa research group comprises researchers with backgrounds in cognitive, social, clinical and developmental psychology, as well as hearing and  speech sciences.

The group has grown out of two overlapping entities:

• The Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Language, Cognition and Gender
• NTNU Speech Laboratory