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DANIEL KOO, PH.D.
Dr. Koo is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Gallaudet University. After receiving his Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester, he did his post-doctoral fellowship on the functional neuroanatomy of reading and phonological processing in deaf populations at Georgetown University's Center for the Study of Learning. Dr. Koo is interested in how the visual language learning experience of deaf individuals shape their linguistic representations and processes. To effectively explore the interplay of communication modality and linguistic systems, he studies how deaf cuers and signers analyze and process their linguistic input. His research interests include adult language processing of cued and signed languages, the effect of modality on language processing and cognition, and the acquisition of cued and signed languages.
Dr. Koo’s research and publications include:
Koo, D., Crain, K., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2008). Phonological awareness and short-term memory in hearing and deaf individuals of different communication backgrounds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 83-99. (peer reviewed journal).
Allen, T., Clark, D., Giudice, A., Koo, D., Lieberman, A., Mayberry, R. and Miller, P. (2009). Phonology and Reading: A response to Wang, Trezek, Luckner, and Paul. American Annals of the Deaf, Vol. 154, No. 4, 338-345.
Koo, D. and Supalla, T. (2010). Psycholinguistic study of phonological processes in deaf adult cuers. In C. LaSasso, K. Crain, & J. Leybaert (Eds.) Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. (pp. 67-91). San Diego: Plural Publishing.
Koo, D., Crain, K., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2010). Phonological awareness and short-term memory in hearing and deaf individuals of different communication backgrounds. In C. LaSasso, K. Crain, & J. Leybaert (Eds.) Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. (pp. 323-344). San Diego: Plural Publishing.
Morere, D.A. & Koo, D. (2012). Measures of receptive language. In D. Morere and T.E. Allen (Eds.), Assessing literacy in deaf individuals: Neurocognitive measurement and predictors.p. 159-178. New York, NY. Springer.
Weisberg, J., Koo, D., Crain, K.L., Eden, G.F. (2012). Cortical plasticity for visuospatial processing and object recognition in deaf and hearing signers. NeuroImage, 60(1), 661-672.
Koo, D. (2013). The signs of a savant: Language against the odds (Book Review). Sign Language Studies, 13(2), 278-281.
Olulade, O., Koo, D., LaSasso, C., Eden, G. (2014). Neuroanatomical profiles of deafness in the context of native language experience. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(16), 5613-20.
Olulade, O.A., Jamal, N.I., Koo, D.S., Perfetti, C.A., LaSasso, C., Eden, G.F. (2015). Neuroanatomical evidence in support of the bilingual advantage theory, Cerebral Cortex, pii: bhv152. [Epub ahead of print]
Koo, D., Pick, L.H., & Garrido-Nag, K. (2016). Neurolinguistics: Cortex Imaging. In G. Gertz & P. Boudreault (Eds.), The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia. New York: SAGE Publications, Inc.