Core Faculty
Gerry Altmann
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Adult language processing, the influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, the interface between language and vision
Željko Bošković
Linguistics
Syntactic theory, comparative syntax, Slavic, Balkan & Romance linguistics
Carl Coelho
Co-PI; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Discourse; aphasia; traumatic brain injury
Marie Coppola
Psychology: Developmental;
Linguistics
Language acquisition; homesign; language genesis; Nicaraguan and other sign languages
Inge-Marie Eigsti
Psychology: Clinical;
Haskins Labs
Developmental cognitive neuroscience; language acquisition; autism; developmental disorders; neuroimaging (fMRI)
R. Holly Fitch
Co-PI;
Behavioral Neuroscience; Physiology and Neurobiology
Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability
Bernard Grela
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Preschool children with language impairments; language learning disabilities; phonological disorders
Elena Grigorenko
Haskins Laboratories;
Yale Child Study Center;
Department of Psychology
Behavior genetics; genomics; epidemiology; developmental disorders
Nicole Landi
Psychology: Developmental; Haskins Laboratories
Language and reading development; fMRI; EEG/ERP; neuro-genetic analyses
Ed Large
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Nonlinear dynamical systems; auditory neuroscience; music psychology
Diane Lillo-Martin
Linguistics; Haskins Laboratories
Language acquisition; theoretical linguistics; sign languages
Joseph LoTurco
Physiology and Neurobiology;
Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience
Neocortical development and neurogenesis; molecular genetics; patch clamp electrophysiology; cell culture techniques
Jim Magnuson
Principal Investigator; Psychology: Language & Cognition; Haskins Labs
Language processing, especially real-time integration of information at multiple scales; language development; EEG/ERP, computational modeling
Emily Myers
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences;
Psychology: Language & Cognition;
MyersLab
Speech perception, word recognition; aphasia; neuroimaging
Letitia Naigles
Psychology: Developmental
Language acquisition and development; early processing of words and grammar, developmental disorders
Ken Pugh
Co-PI;
Psychology: Language and Cognition;
Haskins Labs
Neurobiology of typical and atypical reading development; fMRI
Heather Read
Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience
Animal models: Functional organization and development of sensory and cortical auditory pathways
Jay Rueckl
Psychology: Language and Cognition;
Director: Brain Imaging Research Center
Haskins Laboratories
Visual word recognition; Morphology; computational models
Adam Sheya
Psychology: Developmental
Development of categorical and conceptual knowledge, emergence of relational reasoning, interactions between perception, action, and knowledge, models of developmental change.
Erika Skoe
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences;
Psychology: Developmental
Neural basis of auditory processing and learning in typical and atypical populations; experience-dependent auditory neural plasticity; auditory development; brainstem & cortical auditory evoked potentials
William Snyder
Co-PI; Linguistics;
Haskins Labs
Child language acquisition; comparative syntax and morphology; syntax-semantics interface; theory of grammar
Tammie Spaulding
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Language development; Specific Language Impairment
Whitney Tabor
Psychology: Language and Cognition;
Haskins Laboratories
Sentence processing; self-organizing/dynamical systems; computational models
Rachel Theodore
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences;
Haskins Laboratories; UConn Laboratory for Spoken Language Processing
Speech perception; perceptual learning; language acquisition; neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG/ERP)
Eiling Yee
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Semantic memory, the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition, language processing, aphasia, neural basis of language