Dr. T Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA) is an internationally recognized scholar with a broad multi-disciplinary research profile in adaptive speech perception, communicatively efficient language production, linguistic evolution, and computational models of cognition. He is among the most cited language scholars of his generation. Prof. Jaeger will lead several statistics sessions during the workshop.  

Dr. Chigusa Kurumada (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA) is a leading scholar of pragmatic and prosodic dimensions of language and investigates how listeners adapt to variability in its structure. She heads the Rochester Kinder Lab which conducts studies in language learning, comprehension, and production in both neurotypical and neurodivergent populations. Her laboratory has received research funding from the National Science Foundation (USA) and the National Institute of Health (USA), as well as the Japan Society of Advancements in Sciences. Prof. Kurumada will lead several sessions on experimental methods during the workshop.  

Dr. Timo Roettger is a cognitive researcher and professor at University of Oslo. Dr. Roettger specializes in the sound patterns of language. He has published important work on analytical methods, aimed at increasing the reliability of research in linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Dr. Roettger will teach the 3rd statistics session (Wednesday, August 21) entitled "Data Visualization -- Clarity vs. Credibility". He will be available for individual consultations with workshop participants on Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. Roettger will also give a talk at the symposium on Thursday, with the title of "One question- many answers: On researcher degrees of freedom and vague theories".

Dr. Julie Sedivy is a hybrid academic and writer whose work ranges from the scientific to the literary, and includes everything in between. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Rochester, where she conducted pioneering research using eye movements to study spoken language comprehension. She subsequently joined the faculty at Brown University for twelve years, and has published more than thirty scientific articles on language and the mind, including a highly popular psycholinguistics textbook, "Language in Mind" (Oxford University Press).

During the workshop, Dr. Sedivy will give a guest lecture on how scientific and artistic expression can coexist in academic writing.

I am a PhD student in neurolinguistics, specializing in the processes subserving conversational behavior. My research combines psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and computational models, to understand higher-level processing in conversational production, comprehension, and turn-taking.

My research centers on L2 pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition. I investigate  how L2 speakers of Swedish process and interpret discourse particles through experimental methods, collecting eye-tracking data (gaze data and pupillometry), as well as reaction times and behavioral data. 

My research focuses on second language speakers' ability to generate predictions of upcoming input based on morphosyntactic information. I use both behavioral and neuroimaging methods in my research.