Former Members

Past Project Scientists

Julia Evans

Neurobiology of learning and memory, language acquisition and childhood language disorders, real-time language processing; eyetracking, EEG, ERP, aMEG
Infant language development
Language and cognitive processing in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairment
Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological correlates of real-time language processing in typically developing children and children with Specific Language Impairment
Implicit learning and memory

2012-2013

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

1998-99
1999-2000

Ben Amsel

Center for Research in Language

Psycholinguistics; Neuroimaging of Language; Computational Models of Language

2010-11

Jennifer Aydelott Utman

Center for Research in Language

Effects of perceptual degradation & variations in timing on semantic priming in aphasics, children with focal brain injury, & normal controls

1997-98
1998-99

Tim Beyer

Center for Research in Language

Using ERPs to address questions of language production and comprehension

2006-08

Klinton Bicknell

My research seeks to understand the remarkable efficiency of language comprehension. I investigate how we comprehend using a diverse set of methodologies: I build formal, computational models of comprehension using tools from computational linguistics and machine learning, and I also perform a wide range of empirical work, including both controlled experiments (especially eye tracking) and statistical analyses of large, naturalistic corpora.

-2013

Arielle Borovsky

Language acquisition and processing in children and adults. More specifically, I examine the impact of linguistic experience and knowledge on word learning and sentence processing in children and adults using eyetracking and ERP methodologies.

-2013

Rain Bosworth

Psychology

Visual processing in deaf subjects

1998-99

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

Juli A. Carter

Center for Research in Language

The proocessing of auditorily presented morphologically complex words

1994-95

Leah Fabiano

Center for Research in Language

Phonological acquisition in bilingual children

2006-08

Kara Federmeier

Center for Research in Language

The neural bases of language processing and in the representation and organization of information in long-term semantic memory

2000-01
2001-02

Tamar Gollan

Center for Research in Language

Lexical retrieval in language comprehension and production in both monolingual and bilinguals subjects (Spanish and Hebrew)

1998-99
1999-2000

Lea Hald

Center for Research in Language

The nature of semantic information that is utilized during on-line sentence comprehension.

2002-03
2003-04

Mary Hare

Center for Research in Language

Sentence processing and the time course of lexical access and integration into an ongoing context

1994-95
1995-96
1996-97

Claudio Hartmann

I am interested in the pathway from visual perception to articulation and I study the effects of routine and cognitive load on the verbalization of dynamic nonverbal stimuli.

There is evidence from action narrations by novice speakers that a range of speech quality parameters are affected by working memory load and I investigate our natural tendency to routinize recurrent messages in recurrent communicative settings in order to free up working memory resources. Previous findings show that as the speech tasks become increasingly more predictable, the verbalizations become more formulaic and qualitatively enhanced, which is often interpreted as shift from a more working memory based into a predominantly long-term memory based speech production mode of skilled speakers.

My postdoctoral goals are to gradually extend and automatize the linguistic analyses of quality of speech indicators and I plan to introduce electroencephalography into my research as a hopeful neurological source of evidence to shed more light on this language phenomenon.

Roberto R. 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

Position and Current Location: Regents Professor, Texas A&M International University

Melissa Herzig

How sign language and gestural language in spoken language reveal children's readiness to learn new concepts.

-2013

Philip Hofmeister

Center for Research in Language

How the complexity of linguistic representations affects the ability to retrieve those representations from memory during language comprehension.

2008-09
2009-10

Amy Hubbard

Center for Research in Language

Neural bases of multimodal and paralinguistic aspects of speech communication (e.g., gesture, head movement, intonation, rhythm).

2008-09
2009-10

So-One Hwang

I study the interaction of language, gesture, and cognition for communicating, thinking, and learning. I am also interested in the temporal dynamics of language processing and its interface with the sensori-motor systems. My training is in linguistics and cognitive neuroscience.

Jonathan King

Center for Research in Language

Sentence processing using electro-physiological techniques.

1993-94

Gowri Iyer

JDP/LCD

Language acquisition

1998-99

Tanya Kraljic

Center for Research in Language

How experience affects adult language performance

2005-06

Gary Oppenheim

Center for Research in Language

Incremental Learning in Lexical Retrieval

2011-12

Jennie Pyers

Center for Research in Language

Investigating code switching in bimodal-bilingual speakers of English and American Sign Language.
Examining emergence of narrative role-shifting in Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL). Tracked changes in false-belief and language performance in Nicaraguan Signers.

2004-05
2005-06

Carolyn Quam

Center for Research in Language

First and second language acquisition in monolinguals and bilinguals. Language processing in normal (monolingual and bilingual) populations using behavioral techniques.

2010-11

Shannon Rodrigue

JDP/LCD

Communication and Social Cognition in 12-month olds from low and middle-income homes

2005-06

Douglas Roland

Center for Research in Language

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.

2002-03
2003-04
2004-05

Ayse Pinar Saygin

1999-2005 Position and Current Location: Lecturer, Marie Curie Research Fellow
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London

Marie St. George

Center for Research in Language

The nature of inference processing: how individual differences contribute to the likelihood that a particular type of inference will be made during reading.

1995-96
1996-97

Robert Thornton

Center for Research in Language

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

2000-01
2001-02

Tessa Verhoef

My main research interests include cultural evolution and combinatorial structure in relation to the origins of human language. I study how the process of cultural transmission and human cognitive biases shape the structure of complex behaviors such as language and other culturally transmitted traditions. The methods I use are a combination of agent-based computer modeling and experiments with human participants to simulate cultural transmission with a focus on miniature artificial languages. My PhD is in Language Evolution and for my BSc and MSc I studied Artificial Intelligence.

2013

Past Predoctoral Trainees

Kathleen Ahrens

Psychology

On-line sentence processing in English; lexical and grammatical processing in Chinese in aphasics & normal controls

1994-95

Analia Arevalo

JDP/LCD

Psycholinguistic methods used in child language development research

2000-01

Shannon Austermann Hula

JDP/LCD

Investigation of attentional allocation during language comprehension in normal processing and in persons with aphasia. Investigation of motor control and efficacious treatment principles in acquired apraxia of speech and other motor speech disorders.

2002-03

Jennifer Balogh

Psychology

On-line sentence processing, aphasia

Cognitive Science

Event related potential studies on comprehension of verbal & non-verbal comprehension

1993-94
1994-95

Hanna Gelfand

Language and Communicative Disorders

Gaze patterns in children with specific language impairment

Simone Gieselman

Linguistics

The Processing of Negation and of Negative Islands

2010-11

David Groppe

Cognitive Science

An investigation of the forms of syntax communities of simple-recurrent networks (SRNs) can develop through repeated attempts at communication

2000-01
2002-03

Matthew Hall

Kathryn Kohnert

JDP/LCD

On-going studies in lexical processing in children learning Spanish and English

1996-97

Dan Kleinman

Psychology/Cognitive Science

Computational models of language

2010-11

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)

Stephen Legatt

Effects of noise to the weights of a connectionist network trained to produce regular and irregular inflected verb forms

1994-95

Matt Leonard

Cognitive Science

Language acquistion and knowledge representation

2009-10

Hua (Serena) Liu

Cognitive Science

Behavioral and neural aspects of bilingualism

1993-94

Chris Lovett

Cognitive Science

ERP study of figurative language processing in elderly adults as compared to young controls

2001-02

Ross Metusalem

Psychology

Page Piccinini

Linguistics

Bilinguals' abilities to use L1 and L2 categories in learning a third language

Lara Polse

Language and Communicative Disorders

Identifying neural correlates of perceptual (orthographic) and conceptual (semantic) processing across development in a single-word reading paradigm

2010-11

Marie Rocha

Psychology

Two interventions aimed at the remediation of communication deficits in children

2002-03

Paul Rodriguez

Cognitive Science

Developing models and analysis of recurrent neural networks in the context of language tasks

1995-96
1996-97

Hannah Rohde

Linguistics

Psycholinguistic research in the field of pronoun interpretation, using it as a window into the biases speakers have for referencing individuals. Interested in how speakers use and process pronouns despite their ambiguity in discourse.

2005-06
2006-07

Katherine Roe

Psychology

On-line processing & hemispheric differences in children & adults; spatial cognition and language; fMRI studies of vision

1996-97

Elizabeth Schotter

Robert Williams

Cognitive Science

Cognitive semantics, conceptual learning and conceptual blending, language processing, and the modeling of these phenomena using parallel distributed processing approaches

1999-2000

Ying Wu

Cognitive Science

ERP study evaluating the gesture of N450 as an index of image-based semantic integration.

2004-05

Past Visiting Scholars

2000-2001

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

2001-2002

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

2002-2003

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

2003-2004

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

2004-2005

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

2005-2006

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

2008-2009

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

Language processing
parallel distributed processing
computational linguistics
psycholinguistics
artificial life
brain and mind

Meiti Opie

Staff Research Associate

Liz's left-hand woman for many years.

Keith Rayner

Faculty

Psychology

Researchers in the Eyetracking Lab under the general direction of Keith Rayner use various eyetracking apparati to study a wide variety of cognitive processes:

eye movements during reading
language comprehension
language production
scene perception
visual search
eye movement control