Language and Cognition People Directory | Department of Psychological Sciences

Photo	Name	Link	Research Interests
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Gerry Altmann	Professor	https://altmann.lab.uconn.edu	Sentence processing, event cognition, and object representation
Faculty\|Not Accepting Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Christian Brodbeck	Fall 2023 became Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University	https://christianbrodbeck.net/	The neural basis of language and speech processing, cognitive neuroscience of language, speech perception, language perception in realistic contexts, and MEG/EEG
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Anne Crinnion	Graduate Student		Computational models of speech, variation in speech
Faculty\|Not Accepting Graduate Students	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Lori Gresham	Assistant Professor in Residence
Faculty\|Not Accepting Graduate Students	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Roeland Hancock	Summer 2023 became the Director of BrainWorks at Wu Tsai Institue, Yale University	https://wti.yale.edu/profile/roeland-hancock	Neurobiology of language processing, drawing on spectroscopy, noninvasive stimulation, and computational models to understand how neural dynamics constrain sentence processing
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Fumiko Hoeft	Professor Campus Director of UConn Waterbury	https://birc.uconn.edu	Neurophysiology, systems and developmental cognitive neuroscience, neurobiological mechanisms, brain maturational processes, skill acquisition, neuroimaging, literacy, dyslexia
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Oliver Lasnick	Graduate Student
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Nathan Lautz	Graduate Student		Cognitive neuroscience of concepts, grounded cognition, semantic control, context effects in semantic memory
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Hyosun Lee	Graduate Student		Cognitive modeling, Sentence processing, Complex systems
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Wesley Leong	Graduate Student		Event Cognition and Conceptual Processing in Language
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Jessica Loya	Graduate Student		Language acquisition in children, Heritage speakers
Faculty\|Not Accepting Graduate Students	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Eric Lundquist	Assistant Professor in Residence		Language and reading, history of psychology, statistics
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Jie Luo	Graduate Student		Learning disabilities, Reading intervention, Neural mechanisms of reading development, Educational neuroscience, Developmental and educational psychology
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	James Magnuson	Professor	https://magnuson.psy.uconn.edu/	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
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Wesley Medeiros	Graduate Student		Cognitive neuroscience, speech production and comprehension, computational models of speech, neuromodulation
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Emily Myers	Associate Professor	https://myerslab.uconn.edu/	cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, aphasia, and speech perception
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Kenneth Pugh	Professor	https://haskinslabs.org/people/kenneth-pugh	Neurobiology of reading and reading ability
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Jay Rueckl	Professor		Reading, word identification, morphology, implicit and explicit memory, connectionist networks and dynamical systems
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Naomi Sellers	Graduate Student		Prediction and language error processing, intersection between language production and comprehension, understanding normative and impaired language processing.
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Caitlin Senni	Graduate Student		Language assessment, language bias, language acquisition, language comprehension, and Theory of Mind
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Whitney Tabor	Associate Professor and Director of Perception, Action, and Cognition	http://wp.solab.uconn.edu/	Change in structured systems, theory of [dynamical systems, computation, grammar, neural networks], sentence processing, language change, group coordination
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Rachel Theodore	Associate Professor	https://slaplab.uconn.edu/	perceptual learning, phonetic variability, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Portia Washington	Graduate Student		Auditory and written language comprehension post-TBI, Culturally informed approaches to research, Open science, Aphasia
Graduate Students	Language and Cognition	Emma Wing	Graduate Student		Event cognition, Sentence processing, Morphosyntax
Faculty	Language and Cognition\|Perception Action and Cognition	Eiling Yee	Associate Professor	http://yeelab.uconn.edu/	Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition and language processing, the neural basis of language

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