August 2024
Sara Dyslin has been awarded an F31 NRSA fellowship! Her research will focus on understanding how damage to language-processing networks influences activity in the brain's visual word form area (VWFA), a region critical for word recognition. Congratulations, Sara!
Title: Investigating functional changes to the visual word form system in post-stroke alexia
Mentors: Dr. Peter Turkeltaub & Dr. Andrew DeMarco
July 2024
Sarah Phillips, PhD, has been appointed as a GHUCCTS TL1 Postdoctoral Fellow starting September 1st, 2024. Congratulations, Sarah!
Title: Assessing prosody processing deficits between Black and White stroke survivors
Mentorship Team: Anna Greenwald (Mentor), Andrew DeMarco & Abby Marsh (Co-mentors)
July 2024
Lillian Chang, PhD, has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Max Riesenhuber's Lab. Congratulations, Lillian!
June 30th, 2024
Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl has been appointed as our fourth predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Iria!
June 23rd, 2024
Elizabeth Anderson has been appointed as our fourth postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Elizabeth!
June 7th, 2024
Lillian Chang
Mentor: Dr. Max Riesenhuber
June 1st, 2024
Trevor K.M. Day has been appointed as our third postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Trevor!
May 2024
International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Swansea University, UK
Mia Coutinho
Awarded second place in the ISBPAC poster competition
May 2024
Linguistics Department, UCLA
Sarah Phillips
Title: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind
March 2024
Language Science Program, Virginia Tech
Sarah Phillips
Title: Prosody: What may lie between composition and control
January 30th, 2024
Sara Dyslin
The role of the vOTC in reading: Insights from post-stroke Alexia
Mentor: Dr. Peter Turkeltaub
November 2023
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, District of Columbia
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: A direct connection from auditory to visual word form areas bridges the auditory and written speech networks: evidence from fMRI and MEG connectivity
September 26th, 2023
Mia Coutinho
The Neuroanatomical correlates of Language Balance in early Spanish-English Bilinguals
Mentor: Dr. Guinevere Eden
September 25th, 2023
Lillian Chang
Mentor: Dr. Max Riesenhuber
July 1st, 2023
Mia Coutinho has been appointed as our third predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Mia!
January 1st, 2023
Christian Navarro-Torres has been appointed as our second postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Christian!
November 2022
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: Visual speech processing interfaces with areas selective for spoken words in ventral and dorsal speech pathways
October 2022
Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: Selective neural tuning to spoken words in the dorsal auditory stream
September 1st, 2022
Lillian Chang has been appointed as our second predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Lillian!
June 6th, 2022
Sara Dyslin, MS, and Sarah Phillips, PhD, have been appointed as our first predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars. Congratulations, Sara and Sarah!