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)
- 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 - Jeonghwa Cho defends dissertation, publishes two new papers
Dr. Jeonghwa Cho successfully defended her dissertation on April 16th, titled Cross-linguistic Representation and Processing of Words,Grammatical features, and Sentences. The committee was Julie Boland, Jonathan Brennan (chair), Shota Momma from… Continue reading Jeonghwa Cho defends dissertation, publishes two new papers - Paper: Neural decoding + Transformer + minimal pairs = new syntactic probing approach for LLMs
MA student Linyang He leads a team that advances probing methods for large language models by combining a linear decoder with the BLiMP large-scale benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs. The result… Continue reading Paper: Neural decoding + Transformer + minimal pairs = new syntactic probing approach for LLMs - Dr. Tzu-yun Tung defends dissertation, on to Chicago!
Many congratulations to Tzu-yun who has successfully defended her dissertation Prediction and Memory Retrieval during Dependency Resolution. The work combines electroencephalography, syntax, cognitive psychology and computational modeling to characterize how predictive… Continue reading Dr. Tzu-yun Tung defends dissertation, on to Chicago! - Reproducing the Alice analysesOne of our projects last summer was to go back into the archives and dig out the code used for data analyses in all our papers published that use the Alice… Continue reading Reproducing the Alice analyses