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Reiko Mazuka is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, affiliated with Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and an M.S. from the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on language acquisition and psycholinguistics, particularly comparing English and Japanese across developmental stages. Key areas include infant speech perception, sentence comprehension strategies, and the influence of language experience on cognitive processes.
Her work emphasizes cross-linguistic studies, investigating how infants' perceptual systems adapt to native phonology and how prosody aids language learning. Mazuka’s grants include studies on visual cue attention in language processing (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2009–2023), prosody in Korean children’s sentence disambiguation (NSF, 2002–2003), and comparative sentence processing (NIMH, 1994–2001).
Publications highlight topics like non-native speech discrimination, cultural diversity in developmental research, and neural mechanisms underlying pitch accent processing. She is associated with the Duke Language Development Lab and collaborates with institutions like the University of Tokyo and Waseda University.
