Sarah Asinari SLAC Trainee Linguistics Syntax, Morphology, English dialectal variation, synchronic language variation, Wh-questions, numeral systems sarah.asinari@uconn.edu
Megan Chiovaro
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences Communication, coordination, collective intelligence, decision making
Jason Crutcher SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Psycholinguistics of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive neuropsychology of pragmatic language jason.crutcher@uconn.edu
Pamela Fuhrmeister SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Speech sound learning, memory consolidation, Acquisition of difficult non-native speech sounds in adults and children pamela.fuhrmeister@uconn.edu
Nikole Giovannone SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Speech Perception, Prosody, Functional Plasticity, and Electrophysiology nikole.giovannone@uconn.edu
Brittney Hernandez
SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology
Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Research on Evaluation (RoE) and Assessment Literacy
Nathan Lautz SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences Cognitive neuroscience of concepts, grounded cognition, semantic control, the neural basis of language nathan.lautz@uconn.edu
Oliver McNeil SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences
Perception, Action & Cognition Structural and functional correlates of pathological cognition,
Language disorders, Neurodevelopment
and plasticity, Computational modeling oliver.mcneil@uconn.edu
Ashley Parker SLAC Trainee
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Typical/Atypical Language Development, Auditory Processing ashley.parker@uconn.edu
Joselyn Perez SLAC Trainee
Educational Psychology Achievement gaps regarding English Language Learners and self-efficacy of bilingualism joselyn.perez@uconn.edu
Katherine (Kara) Vlahcevic
SLAC Trainee
Psychological Sciences Development of Reading and Learning Disabilities in Children
Different Neuroimaging Techniques: MRI, EEG Impact of Remediation Training katherine.vlahcevic@uconn.edu
Amanda Wadams SLAC Trainee Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Attention, Working Memory, Executive Function and Metacognition in people with Aphasia amanda.wadams@uconn.edu
James Magnuson
Principal Investigator
Psychological Sciences Computational and experimental approaches to the psychology and neurobiology of language, and science communication james.magnuson@uconn.edu
Emily Myers
SLAC Core Faculty
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Speech Perception, Aphasia, fMRI, Second Language Learning, Perceptual Learning and Sleep emily.myers@uconn.edu
Adrian Garcia-Sierra Assistant Professor
Speech, Language Hearing Sciences brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials,
speech perception, and bilingualism adrian.garcia-sierra@uconn.edu
Fumiko Hoeft Professor & Director of BIRC
Psychological Sciences Developmental cognitive neuroscience, Brain development, Multi-modal neuroimaging, Reading development, Dyslexia, Machine learning, Network analysis fumiko.hoeft@uconn.edu
Etan Markus Professor and Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies
Psychological Sciences Behavioral Neuroscience, Single Unit Recording, Hippocampus, Episodic Memory, Spatial Navigation, Aging etan.markus@uconn.edu
Jennifer Mozeiko Assistant Professor Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Aphasia, Treatment, Outcomes, Intensity, Neuroplasticity, Quality of Life. jennifer.mozeiko@uconn.edu
Letty Naigles Professor and DEV Division Head Department of Psychological Sciences Child Language Acquisition, Early Child Development, Methods of studying language knowledge and use leticia.naigles@uconn.edu
Alexandra Paxton
Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences interpersonal dynamics, social interaction, data science, research methods alexandra.paxton@uconn.edu
