People

Kristina graduated from MIT with an B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, minors in Mathematics and Psychology, and a concentration in Linguistics. As an undergraduate, she worked in the MIT Center for Neuroeconomics investigating the neural basis of trust and self-deception. Starting in Fall 2013...

Candida's research interests include Medical Image Analysis, Neuroimaging and Neurolinguistics. She graduated from Cornell University with a Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working with Dr. Anthony Reeves to develop an automated system for body surface segmentation to...

Margarita's research interests include understanding the time course of sentence comprehension in children and adults by use of varying behavioral and neurological methodologies, and the effects that multilingualism, discourse goals, and context have on this process. She graduated from New York...

Ben graduated from University of California, San Diego with a B.S. in Cognitive Science, specializing in human cognition. In San Diego he worked with Dr. Ben Bergen on projects involving cognitive linguistics and music cognition as well as Dr. Virginia de Sa, whose work focused on brain-computer...

Connie graduated from University of California, Davis in 2014 with a B.A. in psychology. She was a research assistant in Dr. Steve Luck's Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, where she worked on projects involving attention, working memory, and the use of ERP methods. She...

Minjae graduated from Swarthmore College in 2015 with a B.A. in Neuroscience. At Swarthmore, she completed a thesis project under Dr. Dan Grodner examining speaker modeling in pragmatic inferencing, and worked on ERP studies exploring the neural signatures of pragmatic implicature. During her time...

Lena graduated from New York University in 2016 with a BA in Linguistics and French and a minor in Psychology. At NYU, she worked in the Neuroscience of Language Lab under Dr. Alec Marantz, investigating phonological ambiguity resolution using MEG and behavioral methods. Lena joined the...

Sophie graduated from Hampshire College in 2018 with a BA in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, and Medicine. At Hampshire, she managed Dr. Joanna Morris's ERP lab and ran studies on morphology and morphosyntax. Sophie's undergraduate thesis investigated the N400 response to different types of...

I graduated from Tufts University in 2021 with a BA in Philosophy and Cognitive & Brain Science and a minor in Computer Science. During my undergraduate years, I worked as a research assistant in the Neurocognition of Language Lab, where I adapted RSA to single-trial EEG datasets and investigated...