Faculty

Gerry Altmann
Professor
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Sentence processing, event cognition, and object representation
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Marianne Barton
Clinical Professor and Director of the Psychological Services Clinic
Psychological Sciences
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Christian Brodbeck
Fall 2023 became Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University
Research Interests: The neural basis of language and speech processing, cognitive neuroscience of language, speech perception, language perception in realistic contexts, and MEG/EEG

James Chrobak
Professor and Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Studies
Psychological Sciences
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Alexandra Garr-Schultz
Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
alexandra.garr-schultz@uconn.edu
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Roeland Hancock
Summer 2023 became the Director of BrainWorks at Wu Tsai Institue, Yale University
Research Interests: Neurobiology of language processing, drawing on spectroscopy, noninvasive stimulation, and computational models to understand how neural dynamics constrain sentence processing

Fumiko Hoeft
Professor
Campus Director of UConn Waterbury
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Neurophysiology, systems and developmental cognitive neuroscience, neurobiological mechanisms, brain maturational processes, skill acquisition, neuroimaging, literacy, dyslexia
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Nicole Landi
Professor, Director (Interim) of Developmental Psychology and Director (Interim) of the UConn Brain Imaging Research Center
Psychological Sciences
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Eric Lundquist
Assistant Professor in Residence
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Language and reading, history of psychology, statistics
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Vicki Magley
Professor and Director of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Psychological Sciences
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James Magnuson
Professor
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Neurobiology and psychology of language, processing, development, and disorders of spoken and written language, computational models, developing comprehensive understanding of language and learning over the lifespan, science communication
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Emily Myers
Associate Professor
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, aphasia, and speech perception
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Kenneth Pugh
Professor
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Neurobiology of reading and reading ability
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Nairán Ramírez-Esparza
Associate Professor and Director of Social Psychology
Psychological Sciences
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Jay Rueckl
Professor
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Reading, word identification, morphology, implicit and explicit memory, connectionist networks and dynamical systems
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Whitney Tabor
Associate Professor and Director of Perception, Action, and Cognition
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Change in structured systems, theory of [dynamical systems, computation, grammar, neural networks], sentence processing, language change, group coordination
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Rachel Theodore
Associate Professor
Psychological Sciences Affiliate
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: perceptual learning, phonetic variability, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition
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Christine Yantz
Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Psychological Services Clinic
Psychological Sciences
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Eiling Yee
Associate Professor
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition and language processing, the neural basis of language
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Not Accepting Graduate Students

Marianne Barton
Clinical Professor and Director of the Psychological Services Clinic
Psychological Sciences
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Christian Brodbeck
Fall 2023 became Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University
Research Interests: The neural basis of language and speech processing, cognitive neuroscience of language, speech perception, language perception in realistic contexts, and MEG/EEG

James Chrobak
Professor and Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Studies
Psychological Sciences
Storrs

Roeland Hancock
Summer 2023 became the Director of BrainWorks at Wu Tsai Institue, Yale University
Research Interests: Neurobiology of language processing, drawing on spectroscopy, noninvasive stimulation, and computational models to understand how neural dynamics constrain sentence processing

Nicole Landi
Professor, Director (Interim) of Developmental Psychology and Director (Interim) of the UConn Brain Imaging Research Center
Psychological Sciences
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Eric Lundquist
Assistant Professor in Residence
Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Language and reading, history of psychology, statistics
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Christine Yantz
Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Psychological Services Clinic
Psychological Sciences
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Affiliated Faculty

Steven Harrison
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources
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John Mathieu
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Friar Chair of Leadership & Teamwork
School of Business
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Gregory Sartor
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy
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Erika Skoe
Associate Professor
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Psychological Sciences
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Emeriti

Jeffrey Fisher
Professor Emeritus
Psychological Sciences and Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy