Karen Emmorey | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Distinguished Professor |
| Awards | Distinguished Career Award from the Society of the Neurobiology of Language (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | San Diego State University |
Karen Denise Emmorey is a linguist and cognitive neuroscientist known for her research on the neuroscience of sign language[1] and what sign languages reveal about the brain and human languages more generally. Emmorey holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University, where she directs the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience.[2]