People

Lab Director

Jonathan Brennan : Associate Professor of Linguistics and Psychology

Jonathan Brennan

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Psychology

jobrenn@umich.edu

Lab Members

James Baybaş : Graduate Student

James Baybaş

Graduate Student

Simón Campos : Graduate Student

Simón Campos

Graduate Student

Eli Friedstrom : Honors Student

Eli Friedstrom

Honors Student

Xueyang Huang : Graduate Student

Xueyang Huang

Graduate Student

Yuchen Huang : Undergraduate Researcher

Yuchen Huang

Undergraduate Researcher

Eva Peng : 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.

Ren Salig : Post-doctoral Fellow

Ren Salig

Post-doctoral Fellow

Hanqi Shang : Undergraduate Researcher

Hanqi Shang

Undergraduate Researcher

Csilla Tatar :

Csilla Tatar

Website

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 :

Junyuan Zhao

Quan Zou : Honors Student

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)