People

SLAC Trainees

Sarah Asinari
SLAC Trainee
Linguistics
Syntax, Morphology, English dialectal variation,
synchronic language variation, Wh-questions, numeral systems
sarah.asinari@uconn.edu

 

Cynthia Boo
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
pragmatic language abilities of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), narrative production, and context effects on language production
cynthia.boo@uconn.edu

 

Hayes Brenner
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Music Cognition, ASD, Rhythmic Entrainment, Neurodevelopment, Prediction, Gene-Environment Interaction
hayes.brenner@uconn.edu

 

Renee Chasse
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Neurodevelopment of Language, Genetics, Communication Disorders, Behavioral Neuroscience
renee.chasse@uconn.edu

Megan Chiovaro
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Communication, coordination, collective intelligence, decision making

Anne Marie Crinnion
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences Language & Cognition
Computational models of speech, variation in speech
anne.crinnion@uconn.edu

 

Jason Crutcher
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Psycholinguistics of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive neuropsychology of pragmatic language
jason.crutcher@uconn.edu

Shawn Cummings
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences
Speech Perception and Production, Phonetics, Adaptation, Causal Inference
shawn.cummings@uconn.edu

 

Kelsey Davinson


Kelsey Davinson
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Episodic Memory Development, Memory, Learning, Social Learning, Cognitive Development, Neurodevelopment

kelsey.davinson@uconn.edu

 

Pamela Fuhrmeister
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Speech sound learning,  memory consolidation, Acquisition of
difficult non-native speech sounds in adults and children
pamela.fuhrmeister@uconn.edu

Sarah Gilmore
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Teacher learning research, learning science, technology integration, and teacher research engagement
sarah.gilmore@uconn.edu

Nikole Giovannone
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Speech Perception, Prosody, Functional Plasticity, and Electrophysiology
nikole.giovannone@uconn.edu

Caitrin Hall


Caitrin Hall
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Social dynamics, interpersonal coordination, and group synchronization. 
caitrin.hall@uconn.edu

 


Brittney Hernandez
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Research on Evaluation (RoE) and Assessment Literacy

Nathan Lautz
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Cognitive neuroscience of concepts, grounded cognition, semantic control, the neural basis of language 
nathan.lautz@uconn.edu

Kaya LeGrand
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
language in autism, word learning, verbs, augmentative/alternative communication (AAC)

Jie Luo
Psychological Sciences
Educational Neuroscience Translational Cognitive Neuroscience
Learning Disabilities Neurobiological markers of dyslexia Reading Interventions
jie.luo@uconn.edu

Sahil Luthra
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Speech, Language, Learning, Words, Perception, Neuroscience
sahil.luthra@uconn.edu

Amanda Mankovich

Amanda Mankovich
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Learning, Attention, Language, Coordination,  Exploration, and Infancy
amanda.mankovich@uconn.edu

Shireena McGee
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Reasoning & Problem Solving, Early Childhood Cognitive
Development, Learning, Educational Psychology, Embodied
Cognition, Executive Functioning Development in Preschool
shireena.mcgee@uconn.edu

Ruth Mcleod
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Behavioral NeuroScience
Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury and Behavioral Outcomes
ruth.mcleod@uconn.edu

Oliver McNeil

Oliver McNeil
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Perception, Action & Cognition
Structural and functional correlates of pathological cognition,
Language disorders,
Neurodevelopment
and plasticity, Computational modeling

oliver.mcneil@uconn.edu

 

Hannah Mechtenberg
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Language & Cognition
Analogical Reasoning, Learning, Motivation, Language, Education, Neuroscience
hannah.mechtenberg@uconn.edu

Hannah Morrow
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Perception, Action & Cognition
Neural organization of semantic memory
hannah.morrow@uconn.edu

 

Ashley Parker
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Typical/Atypical Language Development, Auditory Processing
ashley.parker@uconn.edu

Joselyn Perez

Joselyn Perez
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Achievement gaps regarding English Language Learners and self-efficacy of bilingualism
joselyn.perez@uconn.edu

 

Peter Perrino
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience & Neurodevelopmental Disorders
peter.perrino@uconn.edu

Maddie Quam
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
language emergence, homesign, sign languages, number cognition

Kirsten Reyna
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Measurement, Assessment & Learning
kirsten.reyna@uconn.edu

Jennifer Richardson
SLAC Trainee
Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Structural Equation Modeling
Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Learning Growth Modeling
Neuropsychology  Bayesian Statistics
jennifer.ichardson@uconn.edu

David Saltzman
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Perception, Action & Cognition
Neural bases of speech perception, distributional learning of speech sound categories, adaptation to talker specific speech input
david.saltzman@uconn.edu

Naomi Sellers


Naomi Sellers
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Language prediction and error processing, individual differences, normative and disordered language processing

naomi.sellers@uconn.edu

 

Kristin (Kris) Simmers
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Mind, Brain, Education sciences (MBE), Science of Learning, Interdisciplinary research in education
kristin.simmers@uconn.edu

 

Gray Thomas

Gray Thomas
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Interpersonal dynamics, effective communication, and team dynamics
gray.thomas@uconn.edu

 

Susan Tilbury

Susan Tilbury
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Neuroscience, Rhythm, Interpersonal synchrony,  Consciousness, Ecstatic experience, Music intervention, Anxiety and trauma disorders
susan.tilbury@uconn.edu

Ryan Troha
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Learning, Memory, Social, Behavioral Neuroscience
ryan.troha@uconn.edu

Amanda Wadams
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Attention, Working Memory, Executive Function and
Metacognition in people with Aphasia
amanda.wadams@uconn.edu

Noelle Wig
SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Bilingualism, Cross-Linguistic Interactions, Sentence Processing, Electrophysiology

Tyler Wrenn
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Memory, Learning, Social Learning
tyler.wrenn@uconn.edu

Emily Yearling
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Event cognition, episodic memory, development, and object representation
emily.yearling@uconn.edu

SLAC Core Team

 


Stormy Chamberlain

Co-Principal Investigator
Genetics and Genome Sciences
chamberlain@uchc.edu

Marie Coppola

Marie Coppola
SLAC Core Faculty
Psychological Sciences
marie.coppola@uconn.edu


Inge-Marie Eigsti

SLAC Core Faculty
Psychological Sciences
Psycholinguistics in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): Language development,conversational
gestures, discourse and executive processes, prosody; Implicit learning and long-term
outcomes in ASD; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu

R. Holly Fitch
SLAC Core Faculty
Psychological Sciences
Roslyn.H.Fitch@uconn.edu

James Magnuson
Principal Investigator
Psychological Sciences
Computational and experimental approaches to the psychology and neurobiology of language, and science communication
james.magnuson@uconn.edu


Betsy McCoach

Co-Principal Investigator
Educational Psychology
betsy.mccoach@uconn.edu


Emily Myers

SLAC Core Faculty
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Speech Perception, Aphasia, fMRI, Second Language Learning,
Perceptual Learning and Sleep
emily.myers@uconn.edu

 

Charlotte Nelson
SLAC Program Coordinator
Psychological Sciences
charlotte.nelson@uconn.edu


William Snyder

Co-Principal Investigator
Linguistics
Parametric Approaches to Language
william.snyder@uconn.edu

SLAC Affiliated Faculty

Gerry Altmann
Professsor
Psychological Sciences
gerry.altmann@uconn.edu


Kimberly Cuevas
Associate Professor
Psychological Sciences
Development of basic and higher-order cognitive processes: learning, memory, executive functions
kimberly.cuevas@uconn.edu

 

Ido Davidesco
Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences
Educational Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and education
ido.davidesco@uconn.edu

Adrian Garcia-Sierra
Assistant Professor
Speech, Language Hearing Sciences
brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials,
speech perception, and bilingualism

adrian.garcia-sierra@uconn.edu


Fumiko Hoeft

Professor & Director of BIRC
Psychological Sciences
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, Brain development, Multi-modal neuroimaging, Reading development, Dyslexia, Machine learning, Network analysis
fumiko.hoeft@uconn.edu


Nicole Landi

Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
nicole.landi@uconn.edu

Edward Large
Director, Music Dynamics Laboratory
Professor
Psychological Sciences
nonlinear dynamical systems, auditory neuroscience, and music psychology
edward.large@uconn.edu

Etan Markus
Professor and Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies
Psychological Sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience, Single Unit Recording, Hippocampus,
Episodic Memory, Spatial Navigation, Aging
etan.markus@uconn.edu

Jennifer Mozeiko
Assistant Professor
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Aphasia, Treatment, Outcomes, Intensity,
Neuroplasticity, Quality of Life.
jennifer.mozeiko@uconn.edu

Letty Naigles
Professor and DEV Division Head
Department of Psychological Sciences
Child Language Acquisition, Early Child Development,
Methods of studying language knowledge and use
leticia.naigles@uconn.edu


Alexandra Paxton
Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
interpersonal dynamics, social interaction, data science, research methods
alexandra.paxton@uconn.edu


Adam Sheya

Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
Cognition, Development, Dynamical Systems
adam.sheya@uconn.edu


Erika Skoe

Associate Professor
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
erika.skoe@uconn.edu


Rachel Theodore
Associate Professor
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
rachel.theodore@uconn.edu

 

Sumarga (Umay) Suanda
Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
Language Development, Word Learning, Statistical Learning, Parent-Toddler Interactions
s.suanda@uconn.edu

 

 


Eiling Yee
Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences
eiling.yee@uconn.edu

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