Language and Cognition Laboratory investigates language use. Our overarching goal is to deepen our understanding of how different types of information (meaning, syntax and form) are represented and processed in the brain so that speakers and listeners can use them effectively and effortlessly.Within this broad framework, our research centres around developing models of how humans represent meaning in both spoken and signed languages; how syntactic information is represented in the brain; how the retrieval of meaning, syntax and form is co-ordinated in time during production. These research themes are addressed using an approach that is cross-linguistic (encompassing both spoken and signed languages); cross-populations (i.e., investigating both language impaired and unimpaired individuals) and interdisciplinary (i.e., using tools from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational neuroscience). Our work on British Sign Language is part of the activities carried out at the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre).