Graduate Students
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Mia Coutinho
B.S. Neuroscience, Lafayette College
First year Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Research interests: first- and second language acquisition, language recovery post-stroke, plasticity, educational neuroscience, and literacy development.
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Marla Dressel
BSc Psychology, University of Groningen
MSc Psychology, University of Amsterdam
First-year Ph.D. student in the Psychology Program with a concentration on Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences
Research interests: social neuroscience of empathy and psychopathy, prosocial and antisocial behavior, computational modeling, neuroimaging, open science
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Carolyn Gershman
B.A. Brain and Cognitive Sciences and American Sign Language, University of Rochester
Second year Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Research interests: Language and cognition, neural organization and plasticity, sign language and deafness
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Genevieve Hayman
B.A., University of Redlands; M.A. Philosophy, University College Dublin
Fifth year Ph.D. student in Philosophy
Research interests: Phenomenology, temporality, and embodied cognition.
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Jessica Kotfila
B.A. Linguistics and Psychology, Smith College
Fourth year Ph.D. student in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Research interests: primary language acquisition with a focus on syntax, semantics, and language change as it pertains to language learning.
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Josh Linden (he/him)
B.A. Psychology, Oberlin College
Third year Ph.D. student in Theoretical Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Research interests: The syntax-semantics interface, cognitive approaches to Minimalist syntax, neurodivergent cognition, the evolutionary history of human language and cognition
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Zhuosi Luo
B.A. China Foreign Affairs Univeristy; M.A. China Foreign Affairs University
Third year Ph.D. student in Linguistics (theoretical) and Cognitive Science
Research interests: the learnability and evolvability issues of language; domain-general cognition
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Flo Martinez Addiego
B.S. Neurobiology & Mathematics, Georgetown University; M.S. Neuroscience, Georgetown University
Second-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Research interests: sensorimotor integration, computational modeling, action representations
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Jakob Prange
B.S. Computational Linguistics, Saarland University
Fifth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science
Research interests: Meaning representations and grammar formalisms for computational language understanding; machine learning.
Alumni
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Katrina Ferrara
Present position: Scientific Program Analyst, Office of Autism Research Coordination, National Institutes of Health
B.A. Psychology and English, Williams College; M.A. Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Children’s National Health System
Research interests: intellectual and developmental disabilities, visual-spatial cognition, cognitive development
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Alix Fetch
Present position: Clinical Research Program Manager, Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Hospital
B.A. Linguistics, University of Michigan; Ph.D. Linguistics, Georgetown University
Research interests: hierarchical structure in language and action; language acquisition, processing hierarchical structure in the brain.
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Heidi Getz
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery
B.A. Linguistics and French, Georgetown University; M.S. Linguistics, Georgetown University; Ph.D. Linguistics, Georgetown University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University
Research interests: how children learn correlations among patterns of syntax and morphology; how the brain processes syntax.
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Joshua McCall
Present position: Medical student completing the final 2 years of MD degree
B.A. Psychology, McGill University; Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
Research interests: Aphasia, Speech Error Monitoring, Cognitive Control, Neuroimaging, and Stroke.
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Shannon Mooney
Present position: Data Scientist, Student Success, Coursera
B.A. Linguistics, Anthropology, New York University; M.A. Linguistics, University of Toronto; Ph.D. Linguistics, Georgetown University
Research interests: language variation and change, quantitative sociolinguistics, and usage-based approaches to phonology and morphosyntax.
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Kathryn Schuler
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester; Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
Research interests: how language is acquired by young children; statistical learning, learning rules and variation.
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Betsy Sneller
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University
B.A. English Literature, Calvin College; M.A. Sociolinguistics, University of Essex; Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Learning and Development Lab, Georgetown University
Research interests: sociolinguistics, language variation and change, phonology, experimental sociolinguistics, experimental phonology.