Many congratulations to seniors in the lab who completed their honors theses! Shuchen Wen conducted an EEG experiment testing the timing of argument-structure by testing for N400 effects when argument roles were reversed in Ba- and Bei-constructions in Mandarin Chinese. […]
Congrats to the undergraduate researchers who presented their work at the spring research symposiums for the UROP program and MRADs program. Kennedy Lloyd won a coveted blue-ribbon award 🏆 for her poster titled Quantifying methodological racialized inequities in neurolinguistics. Analyzing […]
Congratulations are in order for newly minted Ph.D. Tamarae Hidlebrandt who successfully defended her dissertation on December 19th! The dissertation describes a host of experiments combining acceptability judgments, self-paced reading experiments, and EEG to probe the nuanced inter-relatedness between grammatical […]
We’re thrilled with the news that Dr. Rachel Weissler (PhD 2021) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Oregon, beginning Fall 2023. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Psychology, Linguistics, and Black Studies at Oregon where she […]
Congratulations are in order for Tzu-Yun Tung! She has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School to pursue her dissertation research on the integration of predictive and memory-based approaches to sentence comprehension. She joins previous […]
Rachel Weissler successfully defended her dissertation back on June 16th and I was prompted to update this news post because the paperwork is now signed and sealed. Details and the abstract are below. She has already begun the next chapter […]
Chia-wen Lo successfully defended her dissertation on April 13th – Many many Congratulations Dr. Lo!!! Title: Testing low-frequency neural oscillations in sentence understanding Committee: Jonathan Brennan (chair), Natasha Abner, Nai Ding, Rick Lewis Abstract:
We’re so proud of Emily Sabo who has accepted a position at Mango Languages as a research scientist. Go Emily!! Emily successfully defended her dissertation in September 2020, titled “Social Factors in the Production, Perception and Processing of Contact Varieties: Evidence from […]
It’s time to catch up on the arrivals and departures the lab has seen over the last 6 months or so! We said goodbye to Meredith Belloni, our lab manager since 2019. She has moved on to graduate studies in […]
With a new school-year starting, we welcome new researchers to the lab, and also say good-bye as others move on to (better??) things. Goodbye to Samia Elahi! Samia joined the lab in 2016 as a UROP student and went […]