Lab Director
Post-doctoral Fellows
David Abugaber
My project with the CNL involves recording EEGs from both interlocutors in a naturalistic conversation and comparing the observed brain activity against predictions from different models of grammar, with an emphasis on collecting neurolinguistic data that is as ecologically valid as possible (see NSF award #220372) . Before coming to Michigan I completed my PhD in Dr. Kara Morgan-Short's lab at the University of Illinois - Chicago, where my dissertation used decoding methods to pull apart neural indices of implicit vs. explicit grammar processing in the context of an artificial language experiment
Graduate Students
Tzu-Yun Tung
Justin Craft
I research phonology, speech perception, and their neurological correlates. Particularly, I am interested in the extent to which phonological knowledge interacts with or is influenced by social cognition, general audition, or visual processing during the perception of phonetic and phonological variation and how these interactive processes affect phonological learning, production and sound change.
Jeonghwa Cho
Lauretta Cheng
Csilla Tatar
I’m interested in pragmatic and prosodic information processing in neurodiverse populations; more specifically, my current research examines the contribution of prosody to making the pragmatic inference from ‘literal meaning’ to ‘ironic meaning’ during sarcasm perception.
Junyuan Zhao
Honors Students
Undergraduate Researchers
Chinmay Savanur
Maria Figueiredo
Kennedy Lloyd
Andrew Hayes
Anna Machak
Navya Gullapuram
Sohum Pavaskar
Graduate Alums
- Tamarae Hildebrandt (PhD 2023)
- Emily Sabo (PhD 2021) – Research Scientist, Mango Languages
- Chia-wen Lo (PhD 2021) – Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Rachel Weissler (PhD 2021) – Post-doctoral researcher, University of Oregon Department of Linguistics
Undergraduate Lab Alums
- Areti Majumdar (2022)
- Jalen Green (2022)
- Matthew Button (2021)
- Reegan Katzenberger (2021)
- Ibrahim Lubis (2021)
- Meredith Belloni (Lab Manager, 2020)
- Salim Huerta (2020)
- Mara Roberts (2020)
- David Kamper (Honors Thesis, 2020)
- Samia Elahi (Lab Manager, 2019)
- Rachael Eby (2017)
- Tyree Cowell (Honors Thesis, 2017)
- Claudia Kassouf (2016)
- Max Cantor (Lab Manager, 2015)
- Emma Saraff (Honors Thesis, 2015)
- Kyle Montgomery (2015)
- Jake Freund (2014)
- Stefanie Younce (2014)
- Maggie Ugolini (2014)
- Maryam Seifeldin (Honors Thesis, 2014)
- Sara Swierczynski (2013)
- Patrick Kelley (Honors Thesis, 2013)
- Paper: Junyuan Zhao on Decoding phrasal categories
Out now in the Journal of Neuroscience, Junyuan Zhao develops an approach to decoding the category features of phrases from EEG data. He goes on to demonstrate that the neural representation… Continue reading Paper: Junyuan Zhao on Decoding phrasal categories - Paper: Chi-Lin Yu on social and language processing during story-listening
Chi-Lin Yu leads a project, along with a team from the Kovelman developmental neuroscience lab, that uses fNIRS imaging to identify neural signatures of social and language processing in school-aged children… Continue reading Paper: Chi-Lin Yu on social and language processing during story-listening - Paper: Jeonghwa Cho on shared morphosyntactic representations in L1/L2
In a new paper appearing in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Jeonghwa Cho (Michigan PhD 2024) demonstrates evidence for shared morphosyntactic representations across languages in multilinguals, but these representations are modulated by… Continue reading Paper: Jeonghwa Cho on shared morphosyntactic representations in L1/L2 - See you at HSP2025
Our lab will be presenting posters about disentangling syntactic from acoustic effects in electrophysiology and fNRIS imaging of language comprehension in dyslexia; both projects involve naturalistic comprehension. See the HSP2025 program… Continue reading See you at HSP2025 - Lab presentations at SNL2024
Lab members will be presenting some of our latest work at SNL2024 in Brisbane Australia Oct 24-26 – be sure to stop by and say hi!! Maria Figueiredo (UMich undergraduate) will… Continue reading Lab presentations at SNL2024