Lab Director

Lab Members

James Baybaş
Graduate Student

Simón Campos
Graduate Student

Eli Friedstrom
Honors Student

Xueyang Huang
Graduate Student

Yuchen Huang
Undergraduate Researcher

Eva Peng
Undergraduate Researcher
My research interests lie in the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and mental health, particularly in how brain signals reflect processes such as language comprehension, memory, and the onset and course of psychological disorders. I’m interested in identifying predictors of neurodevelopmental and other psychiatric disorders by examining neural data and brain development using EEG and fMRI.


Hanqi Shang
Undergraduate Researcher

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

Quan Zou
Honors Student
Lab Alumni
Post-doctoral Fellows
- David Abugaber (2023)
Graduate Students
- Jeonghwa Cho (PhD 2024)
- Lauretta Cheng (PhD 2024)
- Linyang He (MA 2024)
- Tzu-yun Tung (PhD 2023)
- Justin Craft (PhD 2023)
- 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 Alums
- Maria Figueiredo (Honors Thesis, 2025)
- Eli Friestrom (Honors Thesis, 2025)
- Quan Zou (Honors Thesis, 2025)
- Gabriel Mora (2024)
- Shuchen Wen (Honors thesis, 2023
- Akshaya Ravikumar (Honors Thesis, 2023)
- Jacky He (Honors Thesis, 2023)
- Haoyu Du (2023)
- Anna Machak (2023)
- Greta Loewenthal (2023)
- Advait Iyer (2023)
- Navya Gullapuram (2023)
- Sohum Pavaskar (2023)
- Kennedy Lloyd (2023)
- Chinmay Savanur (2023)
- 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)