Coordinators
William Snyder (opens in new window)
Co-PI
Linguistics
Research Interests: Child language acquisition; comparative syntax and morphology; syntax-semantics interface; theory of grammar
Rachel Theodore (opens in new window)
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: Speech perception; perceptual learning; language acquisition; neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG/ERP)
Faculty
Gerry Altmann (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Adult language processing, the influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, the interface between language and vision
Carl Coelho (opens in new window)
Co-PI
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: Discourse; aphasia; traumatic brain injury
Marie Coppola (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Developmental
Linguistics
Research Interests: Language acquisition; homesign; language genesis; Nicaraguan and other sign languages
Inge-Marie Eigsti (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Clinical
Research Interests: Developmental cognitive neuroscience; language acquisition; autism; developmental disorders; neuroimaging (fMRI)
Holly Fitch (opens in new window)
Co-PI
Psychological Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability
Jon Gajewski (opens in new window)
Linguistics
Research Interests: Semantics, Syntax/Semantics Interface
Bernard Grela (opens in new window)
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: Preschool children with language impairments; language learning disabilities; phonological disorders
Nicole Landi (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Developmental
Research Interests: Language and reading development; fMRI; EEG/ERP; neuro-genetic analyses
Ed Large (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamical systems; auditory neuroscience; music psychology
Diane Lillo-Martin (opens in new window)
Linguistics
Research Interests: Language acquisition; theoretical linguistics; sign languages
Jim Magnuson (opens in new window)
PI
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Language processing, especially real-time integration of information at multiple scales; language development; EEG/ERP, computational modeling
Emily Myers (opens in new window)
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Speech perception, word recognition; aphasia; neuroimaging
Letitia Naigles (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Developmental
Research Interests: Language acquisition and development; early processing of words and grammar, developmental disorders
Heather Read (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Animal models: Functional organization and development of sensory and cortical auditory pathways
Jay Rueckl (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Visual word recognition; Morphology; computational models
Adam Sheya (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Development of categorical and conceptual knowledge, emergence of relational reasoning, interactions between perception, action, and knowledge, models of developmental change.
Erika Skoe (opens in new window)
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: Neural basis of auditory processing and learning in typical and atypical populations; experience-dependent auditory neural plasticity; auditory development; brainstem; cortical auditory evoked potentials
Tammie Spaulding (opens in new window)
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: Language development; Specific Language Impairment
Jon Sprouse (opens in new window)
Linguistics
Research Interests: Syntax, Psycholinguistics
Whitney Tabor (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Sentence processing; self-organizing/dynamical systems; computational models
Eiling Yee (opens in new window)
Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition
Research Interests: Semantic memory, the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition, language processing, aphasia, neural basis of language