People

Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD

Director, NoL Training Program

turkeltp@georgetown.edu

Rachel Galginaitis, MS

Administrator, NoL Training Program

rg1171@georgetown.edu

Thomas Coate, PhD

Associate Professor, Biology

Coate Lab

tmc91@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Mechanisms of SGN-hair cell connectivity, intercellular communication between SGNs and the cochlear mesenchyme.

Andrew DeMarco, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine

DeMarco Advanced Research in Neurorehabilitation (DARN) Lab

Andrew.DeMarco@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Neural and cognitive architecture of the speech and language systems, how those systems break down in stroke aphasia, and how they become reorganized via neuroplasticity during recovery.

Guinevere Eden, DPhil

Professor, Pediatrics

Center for the Study of Learning

edeng@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Neural basis of learning and its disorders.

Mackenzie Fama, Ph.D., CCC-SLP 

Adjunct Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine

Fama Aphasia Recovery Lab

fama@gwu.edu

Research Interests: Improving language recovery and quality of life for people with aphasia and related communication disorders.

Rhonda Friedman, PhD

Professor, Neurology

Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation

RFriedman@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: How language is processed in the normal brain; how language breaks down in a brain damaged by stroke, head injury, or dementia; and how the brain recovers language functions -- with or without therapy -- in the months and years following the injury.

William Gaillard, MD

Adjunct Professor, Neurology
Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program
wgaillar@childrensnational.org
Research Interests: Utilizing advanced structural and functional imaging to examine the effects of epilepsy on brain structure and function.

Heidi Getz, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Neurology
Teaching Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Learning and Development Lab
heidi.getz@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Child language acquisition, statistical learning, and brain mechanisms of language acquisition.

Anna Greenwald, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology
Cognition and Emotion after Stroke Project
as2266@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Visual and auditory perception, attention, and brain plasticity.

Barbara Landau, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Neurology
Language and Cognition Lab
landau@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, and the relationships between these two foundational systems of knowledge.

Tina Liu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology
Visual Perception and Plasticity Lab
tl925@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Neuroplasticity in heathy and clinical populations across the lifespan.

Elissa Newport, PhD

Professor, Neurology

Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery

eln10@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: the acquisition of language, the relationship between language acquisition and language structure, and the recovery of language after damage to the brain early in life.

Joan Orpella, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Orpella Lab

jo866@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Speech production, auditory perception, and language learning. 

Josef Rauschecker, PhD, DSc

Professor, Neuroscience

Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition 

rauschej@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Functional organization and plasticity of the cerebral cortex, with special emphasis on the neural substrates of audition in humans and nonhuman primates.

Jana Reifegerste, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Brain and Language Lab

jr1754@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Aging and the effects of age-related cognitive changes on language learning and processing.

Max Riesenhuber, PhD

Professor, Neuroscience

Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

mr287@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying human object recognition and learning across sensory modalities as a gateway to understanding the neural bases of intelligent behavior.

Ella Striem-Amit, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab
Ella.StriemAmit@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Utilization of state-of-the-art behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to study people who experienced early sensory and motor deprivation: people born blind, deaf or without hands. 

Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD

Professor, Neurology

Cognitive Recovery Lab

turkeltp@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: How the brain performs language and cognitive functions, how these brain systems change in the face of injury or dysfunction, and how we can improve recovery. 

Michael Ullman, PhD

Professor, Neuroscience

Brain and Language Lab

michael@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Neurocognition of language, memory, and other aspects of cognition in healthy populations and disorders. 

Ethan Wilcox, PhD

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Psycholinguistics, Information, and Computation Lab 

ew807@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Computational mechanisms that underlie language processing and language learning, both in people and in computational systems.