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. Building on previous work, she manipulated the timing between arguments and target verb and found…
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Award-winning undergraduate research at the Michigan research symposium
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 evoked auditory responses from 66 participants, she found that signal quality was highest in white…
Dr. Tamarae Hildebrandt defends dissertation
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 competence and different measures of language performance. The studies address this relationship across a range…
Rachel Weissler to join U Oregon faculty!
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 studies language perception and production with a focus on African American English. Be sure to…
Fellowship award for Tzu-Yun Tung
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 awardees from the lab Justin Craft (2021) and Chia-wen Lo (2020, Barbour Fellowship). All I…
Dr. Rachel Weissler defends dissertation; joins U Oregon
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 of her career as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the…
Congratulations Dr. Chia-wen Lo!!
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:
Dr. Emily Sabo defends dissertation and joins Mango Languages!
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 Bilingual Corpora, Nativeness Evaluations, and Real-time Processing (EEG) of Spanish-accented English”. Her dissertation combined EEG…
Comings and Goings, Fall 2020 Edition
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 Linguistics at Tulane. Congrats Meredith!!! She leaves the lab better than she found it (of…
Hellos and Goodbyes, Fall 2019 edition
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 on to be an invaluable contributor to many of our projects. She has been our…