Nora Alpers
Advisor: Letty Naigles
Language acquisition; Autism; ADHD; Fragile X; bilinguals and second language learners
Emily Carrigan
Advisor: Marie Coppola
Signed languages; Homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language; language emergence
Brian Castelluccio
Advisor: Inge-Marie Eigsti
Language acquisition and development; Autism; fMRI; Complex trait genetics
Iris Chin
Advisors: Letitia Naigles & Diane Lillo-Martin
Language acquisition; Autism; morphosyntax; pragmatics
Nicole Cruse
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Advisor: Carl Coelho
Aphasia; traumatic brain injury; acquired neurological communication disorders; narrative/storytelling patterns; neurolinguistics; fMRI; language plasticity; transition care
Charles Davis
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Eiling Yee
Semantic representation; neural basis of language comprehension and representation; neuroimaging methods and electrophysiology
Julia Drouin
Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
Advisor: Rachel Theodore
Speech perception; perceptual learning; neuroimaging techniques; electrophysiology
Zachary Ekves
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Gerry Altmann
Language comprehension, sentence processing, neuroimaging methods
Pamela Fuhrmeister
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Advisor: Emily Myers
Speech perception; second language acquisition; individual differences in non-native speech sound acquisition
Deanna Gagne
Advisor: Marie Coppola
Language Acquisition, Number Cognition, Theory of Mind, Sign language and language emergence, Homesign systems
Joshua Green
Advisor: Inge-Marie Eigsti
Autism; affective prosody; language plasticity; music; vocal-emotional communication
Ted Jenkins
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciencess
Advisor: Carl Coelho
Gesture, aphasia, and language intervention
Alexis Johns
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisors: Jim Magnuson & Emily Myers
Spoken word recognition; How experience and expectations affect language comprehension; Age-related sensory and cognitive decline
Kyra Krass
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Gerry Altmann
Bilingualism; sentence processing
Anish Kurian
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Ken Pugh
Reading disability;fMRI, EEG, and other neuroimaging techniques; language and reading acquisition
Monica Li
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Jim Magnuson
Neural plasticity in language disorders; speech and music prosody; multilingualism; fMRI; ERP; eye tracking
Andre Lindsey
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Advisor: Carl Coelho
Cognitive communication disorders; traumatic brain injury; aphasia
Iliana Meza-Gonzalez
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Emily Myers
Speech Perception; perceptual learning in speech
Nicholas Monto
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Advisor: Rachel Theodore
Neural basis of reading ability and its relationship to speech sound representation
Roberto Petrosino
Advisors: Andrea Calabrese & Emily Myers
Phonology, underspecification, organization of lexicon, speech perception
Yanina Prystauka
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Gerry Altmann
Sentence processing; concept representation; bilingualism; oscillatory dynamics of linguistic processing
Amanda Rendall
Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience
Advisor: Holly Fitch
Rodent models of neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic disruption of early neural development, Autism, Dyslexia, SLI
Russell Richie
Language processing, acquisition, and emergence; organization of the lexicon; prosody
Advisors: Marie Coppola & Whit Tabor
Kayleigh Ryherd
Advisor: Nicole Landi
Language acquisition and processing; reading comprehension; neuroimaging methods
Oliver Sawi
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Jay Rueckl
Language acquisition and development in typically and atypically developing populations; divergent forms of bilingual education; visual word recognition
Kathleen Shaw
Advisor:
Audio-visual speech perception; neuroimaging techniques; infant attentional processes
Elizabeth Simmons
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisors: Jim Magnuson & Tammie Spaulding
Developmental disorders, particularly autism; speech perception; language development; prosody
Garrett Smith
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Whit Tabor
Dynamical approaches to language and cognition; formal syntax and semantics; computational modeling
Rachael Steiner
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Jim Magnuson
Psycholinguistics; computational models
Parker Tichko
Advisor: Erika Skoe
Developmental processes that govern language and music learning. Parallels between language and music. Cross-domain effects of music training.
Charles Wasserman
Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience
Advisor: Heather Read
Auditory processing, music, EEG/ERP, neuroplasticity and biofeedback
Kacie Wittke
Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
Advisor: Tammie Spaulding
Specific language impairment, autism, executive functioning
Henry George Wolf VII
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Advisor: Jay Rueckl
Neurobiology of second and third language acquisition; Computational modelling of monolingual and plurilingual language use; Cross-language lexical interaction
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
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
Paul Allopenna
Program Coordinator; Psychology: Perception, Action, and Cognition
Computational and dynamical systems models of cognition; psycholinguistics
Molly Waterman
Assistant Program Coordinator; Psychology: Clinical
Animal-Assisted Therapy; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Clinical Psychology
Matt Hall
Language & cognitive development; psycholinguistics; language emergence; language evolution; sign languages; deafness; cochlear implants
Gitte Joergensen
Psychology: Language and Cognition
Sentence processing; mental representations; eye movements
Sergey Kornilov
Postdoc: Child Study Center, Yale
Neurobiological foundations of developmental disorders with an emphasis on neurophysiological and molecular genetic methods.
Advisor: Jim Magnuson
Ashlee Shaw
Postdoc: African-American Alzheimer's Awareness & Brain Health Initiative, Rutgers
Language Acquisition; individual differences in reading ability
Advisor: Jim Magnuson
Dongnhu Truong
Postdoc: Department of Pediatrics, Yale
Rodent models of neurodevelopmental disorders; genetic disruption of early neural development; Dyslexia; SLI; Autism
Advisor: Holly Fitch