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| Name | Department | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Gerry Altmann | Psychological Sciences | Adult language processing, the influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, the interface between language and vision |
| Dorit Bar-On | Philosophy | Philosophy of language and mind; origins of language; theory of mind; pragmatics/semantics |
| Eva Bar-Shalom | Linguistics | Language Acquisition, Slavic Linguistics, Bilingualism and Language Attrition |
| Thomas Bontly | Philosophy | Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science |
| Zeljko Boskovic | Linguistics | Linguistics (Syntax) |
| Andrea Calabrese | Linguistics | Phonological theory, Historical Linguistics, Romance Linguistics |
| James Chrobak | Psychological Sciences | Making memories in the mammalian brain; the physiology and function of the hippocampus and interconnected forebrain circuits |
| Marie Coppola | Psychological Sciences | Language emergence, homesign, cognitive development, number cognition, sign language structure, language acquisition |
| Kimberly Cuevas | Psychological Sciences | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: EEG, ECG, Learning, Memory, Executive Functions |
| Ido Davidesco | Educational Psychology | School-based EEG research; Attention; Science education |
| James Dixon | Psychological Sciences | Self-organization in perception, action, and cognition; hermodynamic origins of behavior; complex behavior in non-living dissipative systems; Fractal and multi fractal analysis |
| Damir Dzhafarov | Mathematics | Mathematical logic, computability theory and reverse mathematics |
| Inge-Marie Eigsti | Psychological Sciences | human cognition, and how brain development and core neurocognitive processes impact language acquisition |
| Deborah Fein | Psychological Sciences | Effectiveness of using the M-CHAT-R to screen for ASD and other developmental delays; understanding the factors that contribute to better outcomes for children with ASD. |
| Holly Fitch | Psychological Sciences | Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; Models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability |
| Carol Fowler | Psychological Sciences | Ecology of language, speech perception from a direct-realist theoretical perspective; compatible theoretical approach to speech perception |
| Lendra Friesen | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | cochlear implants, speech perception, electrophysiology, aging |
| Jon Gajewski | Linguistics | Semantics |
| Adrian Garcia-Sierra | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Speech perception, language development, bilingualism, ERPs |
| James Green | Psychological Sciences | Development of prelinguistic communication |
| Mitchell Green | Philosophy | Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatics, Evolution of Communication, Animal Communication |
| Bernard Grela | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | SLI, language disorders, reading disabilities, phonological disorders |
| Gwen Gustafson | Psychological Sciences | social and communicative behavior, infant development, development of caregiving behavior |
| Roeland Hancock | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive neuroscience of language, individual differences, neuroimaging, cortical excitability |
| Fumiko Hoeft | Psychological Sciences | Brain development, Neuroimaging, Individual differences, Literacy acquisition, Dyslexia |
| Patrick Hogan | English | Emotion, simulation, and narrative; beauty and aesthetic response; social neuroscience, politics, and literature |
| James Kaufmann | Educational Psychology | Creativity measurement; Creativity and social justice; Creativity and its relationship to other constructs (such as personality, intelligence, and motivation); Creativity theories; and Creativity and Mental Health |
| Magdalena Kaufmann | Linguistics | Semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface |
| Stefan Kaufmann | Linguistics | Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Psychology |
| Ally Ladha | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Philosophy and literature; aesthetics; literary theory; postcolonial studies; poetry (19th and 20th century French, francophone African, American, British, Latin American); Islamic studies (pre-Islamic poetry; Quranic studies; art and aesthetics; Islamic legal and political theory; African Islam); German romanticism |
| Nicole Landi | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurogenetic Approaches |
| Edward Large | Psychological Sciences | Auditory Neuroscience, Dynamic Systems |
| Diane Lillo-Martin | Linguistics | Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition, Structure and Acquisition of American Sign Language |
| Michael Lynch | Philosophy | Representation, philosophy of mind |
| James Magnuson | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience of language; computational modeling |
| Etan Markus | Psychological Sciences | Behavioral neuroscience, physiology, learning, memory aging |
| Kerry Marsh | Psychological Sciences | Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behaviour |
| Robert McCartney | Computer Science and Engineering | Artificial intelligence, robotics, computing education |
| Ruth Millikan | Philosophy | Philosophy of Mind, philosophy of science |
| Andrew Moiseff | Physiology & Neurobiology | Understanding of the neural mechanisms controlling communication behavior |
| Jennifer Mozeiko | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging. |
| Emily Myers | Psychological Sciences | Speech perception, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, aphasia |
| Letitia Naigles | Psychological Sciences | Language representation, language acquisition, language in developmental disorders, cross-linguistic comparisons |
| Alexandra Paxton | Psychological Sciences | dynamics of interaction and social behavior; data-rich research methods; naturally occurring datasets and "big data"; ethics of human-derived data |
| Jeremy Pressman | Political Science | Foreign policy decision-making, Middle East Studies |
| Heather Read | Psychological Sciences | Behavioral neuroscience of social communication including vocalizations |
| Jay Rueckl | Psychological Sciences | Reading, word identification, and morphology, Implicit and explicit memory, Connectionist networks and dynamical systems |
| John Salamone | Psychological Sciences | Neurochemistry and Behavior |
| Mikhael Shor | Economics | Industrial organization & antitrust, experimental economics, auction theory |
| Erika Skoe | Speech Language & Hearing Sciences | The influence of enriched or impoverished experiences on linguistic and cognitive function |
| William Snyder | Linguistics | Child Language Acquisition, Comparative Grammar, Models of Language Processing |
| Tammie Spaulding | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Language development; Specific Language Impairment |
| Adrian Stegovec | Linguistics | syntax, linguistic typology, linguistic variation, syntax-semantics interface |
| Umay Suanda | Psychological Sciences | Early cognitive, social, and language development, word learning, caregiver-toddler communication. |
| Whit Tabor | Psychological Sciences | Dynamical systems theory, artificial neural networks, language (structure, processing, change, learning), sentence processing, artificial grammar, recursion, experimental semiotics, theory of computation. |
| Rachel Theodore | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Speech perception, spoken language processing, perceptual learning, dyslexia, hearing impairment |
| Evelyn Tribble | English | Shakespeare, performance, memory, and skill. |
| Eduardo Urios-Aparisi | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory applied to cinema and art |
| Harry van der Hulst | Linguistics | Phonological Theory, SL Phonology, Evolution of Language, Phonological Acquisition, Phonetics-Phonology Interface |
| Manuela Wagner | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Early language development in “normal” and “exceptional” circumstances, second language acquisition, pragmatics, brain development |
| Dimitris Xygalatas | Anthropology | Ritual, cooperation, and the interaction between cognition and culture |
| Eiling Yee | Psychological Sciences | Semantic memory/neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition |