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Past Postdoctoral Researchers

Name	Research Interests	Year	Position and Current Location
Katherine Alcock	Lateralization of pitch and phoneme processing; the effect of schooling on phonological awareness; The processing of noun class in Kiswahili. Oral motor skill, production and perception of timing, and production and perception of pitch in musical and linguistic contexts in two groups of dysphasic subjects (members of a family with an inherited nonfluent dysphasia or adult patients with acquired nonfluent dysphasia).	1998-2000	Lecturer, City University, London, UK
Jennifer Aydelott	Effects of perceptual degradation & variations in timing on semantic priming in aphasics, children with focal brain injury, & normal controls	1997-1999	Lecturer Univ. of Oxford , UK
Tim Beyer	Language development, language processing & comprehension, bilingualism, language & thought, grammatical gender, linking basic research to teaching
Eileen Cardillo	Interactions between perceptual, attentional, and semantic processes in language. In particular: The impact of acoustic degradations and auditory distractions on speech comprehension The role of impaired cognitive control in the aphasic deficits associated with prefrontal lesions	2005-2007	Penn State, Philadelphia, PA US
Juli A. Carter	Auditory processing of morphologically complex words	1994	Linguist and Program Coordinator, Metaphor, Inc.
Leah Fabiano	Phonological acquisition in bilingual children
Kara Federmeier	The neural bases of language processing in the representation and organization of information in long-term semantic memory	2000-2002	Asst. Professor of Psychology, Univ. of Illinois Champaign Urbana
Tamar Gollan	Focus on characterizing lexical retrieval in language comprehension and production in both monolingual and bilinguals subjects (Spanish and Hebrew)	1998-2000	Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
Lea Hald	The nature of semantic information that is utilized during on-line sentence comprehension.	2003-2004	Department of Human Communication Science, University College London
Mary Hare	Neural network models of grammatical morphology	1994	Asst. Professor, Bowling Green State Univ.
Roberto Heredia	Lexical access, bilingual lexical processes, lexical ambiguity, literal vs. nonliteral language processes, sentence processing, second-language acquisition, word recognition, memory and information processing	1995-1997	Associate Professor of Psychology, Texas A&M International University
Philip Hofmeister	How the complexity of linguistic representations affects the ability to retrieve those representations from memory during language comprehension.
Amy Hubbard	Neural bases of multimodal and paralinguistic aspects of speech communication (e.g., gesture, head movement, intonation, rhythm). Neural underpinnings of bilingualism in regards to both spoken and signed languages. Sociocultural (Vygotskian) Theory and its implications for second language learning and teaching.
Jon King	Clarifying which language processes are indexed by components of the ERP to written and spoken language	1993	Asst. Professor of Psychology, University of Missouri
Tanya Kraljic	Research focuses on the cognition and perception of speech, in particular: The processes that enable speaker-hearer coordination in dialogue The effect of implicit and perceptual learning on adult language Performance Dialectal variation The role of self-perception (feedback) in spoken and signed language	2006-present	Continuing
Jennie Pyers	Investigating code switching in bimodal-bilingual speaker of English and American Sign Language (ASL). Examining emergence of narrative role-shifting in Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL). Tracked changes in false-belief and language performance in Nicaraguan Signers.	2004-2006	Wellesley College, Boston, MA US
Carolyn Quam	I use experimental and corpus-phonetics methods to investigate phonological learning in early childhood, the application of phonological knowledge to word learning, and how regularities in the sounds children hear constrain their word-learning and sound-learning hypotheses.
Doug Roland	Computational modeling of the human brain using regression moedeling and corpus data to investigate the availability of and interactions between different potential sources of information for structural ambiguity resolution during sentence processing.	2002-2005	Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
Ayse Pinar Saygin		1999-2005	Marie Curie Research Fellow Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London
Marie St. George	The nature, extent, and time course of brain activation, as measured by fMRI and ERPs	1995	Special Education Teacher, Vista, CA
Robert Thornton	Grammatical agreement processes, cross-linguistic differences in comprehension, the influence of pragmatic and plausibility information on processing, and the relationship between language production and comprehension	2000-2002	Research Associate, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, Pomona College

Past Predoctoral Trainees

	Name	Research Interests	Year	Position and Current Location
	Chris Barkley	The role of selective attention in language learning and online language comprehension. The nature of expectations generated during language comprehension and the neural mechanism mediating these expectations. The processing of dependencies between various types of discontinuous linguistic elements.
	Rebecca Colavin	My main area of interest is computational phonologyand more specifically in phonotactics, the set of language specific rules that determine the acceptability of sound sequences. I am currently evaluating the performance of a maximum entropy phonotactic learner (Hayes and Wilson, 2008) on data from Amharic. The goal of my dissertation is to obtain experimental evidence of how nonce words of varying acceptability are processed by speakers and to propose an improved model of phonotactic learning.
	Simone Gieselman Linguistics	The Processing of Negation and of Negative Islands.
	Alex Del Giudice	My background in Sign Language Phonology and interests in language change and evolution have led to my research on the evolutionary origins of phonology. Part of this research focuses on how words, which may have begun as holistic form-meaning pairs, gain sub-lexical structure overtime as re-occurring sub-lexical pieces (such as phonemes or syllables) pervade the lexicon. Furthermore, evidence from newly developed sign languages suggest that the adoption of such innovations are closely dependent on the structure of the population (i.e. how large the language community is, how many social-communicative links each speaker has to other speakers in the community, etc). To explore these dependencies, I'm designing an agent-based computer simulation that explores the development of a simple phonology in a population of agents with varying social structures.
	Matthew Hall Psychology	Interaction of language modality and cognition.
	Dan Kleinman Psychology	Computational models of language.
	Philip Lai	Previous Projects: Music and emotions in Williams Syndrome. Current Project: Non-verbal behavior and its integration with language in children who suffered a focal lesion due to a perinatal stroke. In both projects, I coded and will code non-verbal categories (gestures, eye gaze, ect.) and see if these developmental disordered populations use the same types of communication by looking at multiple channels of non-verbal behaviors. For the Williams Syndrome project, I found that the WS population tended to be more expressive when they are in the musical domain. For the focal lesion group, I want to see if they communicate through nonverbal channels the same way typically developing children do (age 6).
	Matt Leonard	Neural basis of bilingual word processing/language organization. Using anatomically-constrained magnetoencephalography (aMEG) and direct intracranial recordings to study different stages of word processing in native vs. non-native languages of varying proficiency. Processing stages of interest include early sensory processing, early word encoding, and lexico-semantic processing in both visual and auditory modalities.
	Ross Metusalem Cognitive Science	Psycholinguistics; Computational Models of Language, Neuroimaging of Language.
	Amy Pace	My current research explores event segmentation and verb learning in young children to identify the behavioral and neurological mechanisms that guide the mapping of novel verb labels to action events. Because actions often occur simultaneously or in sequence with other actions, the ability to select a referent action for mapping is dependent in part upon earlier emerging event segmentation skills. The long-term goals of this project are to (1) assess the behavioral and neural indices of event segmentation and (2) identify how sensitivity to perceptual cues and intentional boundaries within complex events supports verb-learning within the second year of life.
	Patrick Plummer Psychology
	Lara Polse Language & Communicative Disorders	Identifying neural correlates of perceptual (orthographic) and conceptual (semantic) processing across development in a single-word reading paradigm.
	Nathaniel Smith	Suppose you hear someone say "The children went outside to..." You can probably guess that the next word will be "play". Making this guess is actually quite complicated, because it requires you to assemble all sorts of different knowledge -- of what children do, and where they do it, and what words are used to describe that in English -- and yet it turns out that people are making these kinds of predictions all the time, and in just fractions of a second. In my work I study how these predictions affect people's eye movements and brain waves when they're reading, as a way to better understand the brain's strategies for deciphering language.

Name	Affiliation
Andonova, Elena	New Bulgarian Univ. , Bulgaria
Bentrovato, Simone	Univ. La Sapienza , Italy
Bertoni, Matteo	Univ. Degli Studi , Italy
Cotelli, Maria	Univ. of Padua , Italy
Devescovi, Antonella	Univ. La Sapienza , Italy
Gollan, Tamar	Univ. of Arizona
Hare, Mare	Bowling Green State Univ. , OH
Janyan, Armina	New Bulgarian Univ , Bulgaria
Kostadinova-Minkovska, Tatyana	Sofia Univ., Bulgaria
Krupa-Kwiatkowski, Magdalena	San Diego State University , CA
McRae, Ken	Univ. of Western Ontario , Canada
Poulsen, Mads	Univ. of Copenhagen , Denmark
Szekely, Anna	Univ. of Budapest , Hungary

Name	Affiliation
Alcock, Katherine	City University , London
Andonova, Elena	New Bulgarian Univ. , Bulgaria
Balota, David	Solana Beach
Behrens, Heike	Univ. Groningeu
Cappa, Stefano	Univ. of Milan , Italy
Caselli , Cristina	Univ. La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Ceponiene, Rita	Lithuiania
Derani, Daniela	Milan , Italy
Devescovi, Antonella	Univ.La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Diamico, Simonetta	Univ. La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Hare, Mary	Bowling Green State Univ. , OH
Keibel, Jens-Holger	Univ. of Freiburg , Germany
Krupa-Kwiatkowski, Magdalena	San Diego State University , CA
McRae, Ken	Univ. of Western Ontario , Canada
Roland, Doug	Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Sager, Nicole	Boulder , CO
Sazonova, Tatiana	Russia
Schluh, Gisela	Univ. of Freiburg , Germany
Szekely, Anna	Univ. of Budapest , Hungary
Zangl, Renate	Austria

Name	Affiliation
Andonova, Elena	New Bulgarian Univ.
Bentrovato, Simone	Italy
Cappa, Stefano	Univ. of Milan , Italy
Devescovi, Antonella	Univ. of La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Diamico, Simonetta	Univ. of La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Dronkers, Nina	Kensington , CA
Ernst, Rosemarie	Univ. Zurich , Switzerland
Goodman, Judith	Columbia , MO
Jackson-Maldonado, Donna	El Colegio de Mexico , Mexico
Janssen, Dirk	Netherlands
Keibel, Jens-Holger	Univ. of Freiburg , Germany
Kohnert, Kathryn	Saint Paul , MN
Kuroda, Kow
Lu, Ching Ching	National Hsinchu Teachers College , Hsinchu , Taiwan
Mary Hare	Bowling Green State Univ. , OH
McRae, Ken	Univ. of Western Ontario , Canada
Perani, Daniela	Univ. of Milan , Italy
Pizzamiglio, Luigi	Italy
Purini-Hahn, Luise	Univ. Venna , Austria
Schalling, Ellika	Sweden
Szekely, Anna	Univ. of Budapest , Hungary
Tzeng, Angela	Chung-Yuan Christian University
Volterra , Virginia	Italian National Research
Wilson, Stephen	Australia

Name	Affiliation
Aronoff, Mark	Stony Brook University , NY
Cappa, Stefano	Univ. of Milan , Italy
Damico, Simonetta	Univ. of La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Devescovi, Antonella	Univ. of La Sapienze, Rome , Italy
Dronkers, Nina
Fabrizio, Piras
Hahn, Luise	Italy
Hare, Mary	Bowling Green State Univ. , OH
Harris, Catherine
Jackson-Maldonado, Donna	El Colegio De Mexico , Mexico
Keibel, Holger	Univ. of Freiburg , Germany
Kokinov, Boicko	New Bulgarian Univ. , Bulgaria
Krupa-Kwiatowski, Magdalena	San Diego State University , CA
McRae, Ken	Univ. of Western Ontario , Canada
Meir, Irit	Univ. of Haifa , Israel
Sandler, Wendy	Univ. of Haifa , Israel
Szekely, Anna	Univ. of Budapest , Hungary

Name	Affiliation
Aronoff, Mark	Stony Brook University , NY
Baldo, Juliana	VA Nothern California Health Care System
Behrens, Heike	Univ. Groningen
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette	Institute of Child Health
Kwiatkowski, Magdalena	San Diego State University , CA
Meri, Irit	Univ. of Haifa , Israel
Sandler, Wendy	Univ. of Haifa , Israel
Schul, Rina	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Smith, Linda
St. George, Marie	Madison Middle School
Wiles, Janet	Univ. of Queensland

Name	Affiliation
Gerken, LouAnn	University of Arizona
Hare, Mary	Bowling Green State University, OH
McRae, Ken	University of Western Ontario
Stiebels, Barbara	Tentrum F. Allgemeine Sprachwissenscheft Berlin

Name	Affiliation
Alcock, Katherine	City University , London
Hare, Mary	Bowling Green State University, OH
McRae, Ken	University of Western Ontario

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