Current Grad Students in SOUND++ group (Idsardi/Poeppel)

Nuria Abdulsabur. Nuria will work jointly with Al Braun at NIH and the CNL lab. Her interest is functional neuroiumaging of language processing.

Diogo Almeida (Linguistics). Lexical access, lexical structure, ASL, syntax.

Greg Cogan (NACS, Linguistics). Speech perception.

Julian Jenkins (Biology). Complex sound processing in human auditory cortex.

Phil Monahan (Linguistics). Phonology, lexical access, syntax.

Ariane Rhone (Linguistics). Speech perception, multi-sensory processing.

Josh Riley (Linguistics). Speech perception, neurolinguistics.

Yue Zhang. Yue will work on auditory neurophysiology.

CNL and others working 'upstairs at the CNL' sometimes:

Ellen Lau. Sentence processing, predictive models, MEG, fMRI.

Clare Stroud. Sentence processing, Spanish, ERP, face recognition.

Matt Winn. Phonetics, phonology, speech perception. Acoustic Guitar.

Postdocs

Mary Howard (Ph.D. 2005, University of Maryland, Computer Science and Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program). Mary is working on (i) computational models of cerebral asymmetry, both in the auditory and visual domains and (ii) MEG studies of elementary auditory cortical processes. [mfhowardATTumdDOTTedu; office 301 405 2587]

Minna Lehtonen (Ph.D. 2006, Abo University, Turku, Finland. Psychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics). Minna is interested in morphological structure and processing and uses various cognitive neuroscience methodologies. [lehtonenATTumdDOTTedu; 301 405 3127]

MEG Lab Manager

• Jeff Walker 301 405 0882

Research Assistants

• Susannah Hoffman (2005-). smh418@umd.edu, (301) 405 3127 

Computer Guru

• we need to fill this position!

Past lab members

• Mike Gordon (post-doc).
• Anthony Boemio (Ph.D. 2002, postdoc at NIMH in Peter Bandettini's group).
• Jeremy Bronheim
• Ana Gouvea (Ph.D. 2002, now faculty at Florida International University in Miami).
• Kala Lakshminarayanan (Ph.D. student 1999-2002, Ph.D. at Rutgers with Paul Tallal, 2007).
• Silvia Gennari (postdoc; now Lecturer at York University UK).  
• Martin Hackl (postdoc; now Asst. Professor at Pomona College) 
• Lisa Sanders (postdoc; now Asst. Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst).
• Virginie Van Wassenhove (Ph.D. 2004, postdoc at UCSF, now Caltech). Multi-sensory perception, audio-visual speech, neurophysiology.
• Anita Bowles (postdoc 2003-2006); now research scientist at Center for the Advanced Study of Language; www.casl.umd.edu)
• Yadong Wang (postdoc 2003-2006; now DSP Algorithm Engineer at Ditech Communications, Mountain View CA)
• Maria Chait (Ph.D. 2006; as of 2007, Marie Curie Fellow at Univ College London). Auditory cognition, speech perception, auditory cortex physiology.
• Rob Fiorentino (Ph.D. 2006, now Asst. Professor, Univ. Kansas). Lexical structure, lexical representation, neurolinguistics.
• Huan Luo (Ph.D. 2006, now in Beijing, Research Scientist, CAS). Huan used MEG and computational modeling to study how human auditory cortex encodes complex sounds.