Gerry Altmann 

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Sentence processing, event cognition, object representation
 

Mary Anne Amalaradjou

Faculty in Animal Science; Food Microbiology
Interests: Probiotics based approaches to control foodborne infections, Host- microbiome interactions in health and disease

Robert Astur 

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Hippocampal memory, Virtual Reality testing of complex behaviors, Spatial memory and development, Gender differences, Substance Abuse, PTSD

Marianne Barton 

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Early parent-child relationships, Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental trajectories in Autism

Jaime Blackmon

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Anxiety, trauma, psychometric validation, stress

Jackie Caemmerer

Faculty in NEAG school of education; School Psychology
Interests: Psychological Assessment Validity Issues, Relations between Social Variables and Academic Achievement and Application of Structural Equation Modeling & Longitudinal Analysis

Alec Calvo

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Industrial/Organizational
Interests: Deeply meaningful work, Job search and selection, Employee attraction, recruitment, & selection, Quantitative research methods

Renee Chasse

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Neurodevelopment of Language, Genetics, Communication Disorders, Behavioral Neuroscience

Cristina Colón-Semenza

Faculty in Kinesiology
Interests: Motivation, behavior change, social support, apathy, effort-based decision-making, health equity, mental health

Hannah Cooke

Grad Student in Curriculum & Instruction; Science Education
Interests: Justice-centered science education, decolonizing science education, and environmental justice through education

Anne Marie Crinnion

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences, Language & Cognition 
Interests: Computational models of speech, variation in speech

Nicole Cruse 

Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences 
Interests: Narrative and storytelling patterns; what those patterns can tell us about how language operates in the brain

Jason Crutcher

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Psycholinguistics of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive neuropsychology of pragmatic language

Kelsey Davinson

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: Memory Development, Infant Learning and Memory, Neuroimaging (EEG and MRI)

Lana Delasanta

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Ecolological
Interests: Perception and action during music performance, Collective goals in group music making, Interpersonal coordination through music, Benefits of group synchrony

Rachel Dopart

Grad Student Alumni in Pharmacy; Medicinal Chemistry

Lee Drown

Grad Student in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Speech perception, dyslexia, and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

Alev Ecevitoglu

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Behaviour, pharmacology, neuroscience, stress, genetics.

Inge-Marie Eigsti

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Psycholinguistics in autism spectrum disorders (acquisition of language, conversational gestures, discourse and executive processes, prosody); optimal outcomes in ASD; hyperlexia; savant musical skills; implicit learning; functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Adrian Garcia-Sierra

Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials, speech perception, and bilingualism.

Jamilah George

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Anxiety disorders; OCD; Race-based trauma; Depression; Scrupulosity; Minority mental health; MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy

Nikole Giovannone

Grad Student in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Speech Perception, Prosody, Functional Plasticity, and Electrophysiology

Amy Gorin

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance, Motivational and environmental processes that affect weight control, Social influences on weight, eating, and physical activity.

Caitrin Hall

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Ecological
Interests: Social dynamics, interpersonal coordination, and group synchronization.

Brittney Hernandez

Grad Student in Educational Psychology; Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Interests: Research on Evaluation (RoE) and Assessment Literacy

Gitte Joergensen

Post-doctoral Researcher in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Eye tracking and how to integrate eye movements with other measures such as fMRI and EEG

Sara Johnson

Faculty in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

Interests: Hellenistic Judaism, Ancient Fictions

Steven Kinsey

Faculty in School of nursing
Interests: Anxiety/Depression, Cannabinoid/opioid pharmacology, Chronic pain, Stress and Substance use disorders

George Kuchel 

Faculty at UConn Health; Neuroscience, Aging
Interests: Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of aging emphasizing inter-individual variability and resilience mechanisms pertaining to mobility, voiding, cognition and host defense, Design and validation of geroscience-guided interventions into aging and common chronic diseases of aging

Caroline Larson

Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Relationships between language and other cognitive factors in children with language disorders, including Developmental Language Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder, with the long-term goal of improving differential diagnosis and treatment.

Nathan Lautz

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of concepts, grounded cognition, semantic control, the neural basis of language

Sharon Lee

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: 

Kaya LeGrand

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: language in autism, word learning, verbs, augmentative/alternative communication (AAC)

Yanran Lin

Kelly Mahaffy

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: Reading and language development, Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits, neuroimaging of reading 

Etan Markus

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Brain basis of behavior, focusing on rats. Specifically: Memory formation, Aging, Hippocampal system, Navigation, Social Interactions

Kerry Marsh

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Social Psychology
Interests: Immersive virtual reality methods, Ecological and dynamical approaches to environmental psychology, Motivational influences, Implicit attitudes and HIV risk behavior, Social affordances and interpersonal coordination of movement

Betsy McCoach

Faculty in Educational Psychology; Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation
Interests: Structural Equation Modeling, Multilevel Modeling, Quantitative Educational Policy Analysis

Ruth McLeod

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury and Behavioral Outcomes

Oliver Lasnick

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Functional connectivity in reading and neurodevelopmental disorders, Temporal sampling and neural oscillations in language, Computational modeling

Hannah Mechtenberg

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: how analogical reasoning and language processing intersect to facilitate learning abstract concepts and in creative problem solving

Hannah Morrow

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Neural mechanisms underlying integration of sensory information into coherent concepts, & the connections between our executive function abilities and creativity/divergent thinking skills.

Jennifer Mozeiko

Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging.

Emily Myers

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition; Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Speech perception, cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, aphasia, second language acquisition

Alexandra Paxton

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Ecological
Interests: Communication and social interaction as a complex dynamical system, Data-rich and dynamics-focused research methods and analyses, Naturally occurring datasets and “big data” for psychological theory-building, Ethics of human-derived data

Joselyn Perez

Grad Student in Educational Psychology
Interests: Achievement gaps regarding English Language Learners and self-efficacy of bilingualism

Kenneth Perez

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Social
Interests: Affective Science, Positive Emotions, Awe and Self-Transcendence on Psychological Well-being

Felicia Pratto

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Social
Interests: Intergroup Relations, Dynamics of Power, Social Cognition

Madeline Quam

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: Language acquisition and emergence, homesign, sign languages, number cognition

Jennifer Richardson

Grad Student in Educational Psychology; Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME)
Interests: Structural Equation Modeling, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Learning Growth Modeling, Neuropsychology, Bayesian Statistics

Carl Rodriguez

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Analgesic effects and potential side effects of phytochemicals found in the Cannabis plant; Behavioral Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Pain and Cannabis

David Saltzman

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Neural bases of speech perception, distributional learning of speech sound categories, adaptation to talker specific speech input

Koyel Sen

Grad Student in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Interests: numerical modeling of particle dynamics and 3D printed tablet dosage form

Natalie Shook

Faculty in School of Nursing
Interests: Social Psychology, Mindfulness, Behavior and well-being, Aging and Health Disparities

Kristin Simmers

Grad Student in Educational Psychology
Interests: Mind, Brain, Education sciences (MBE), Science of Learning, Interdisciplinary research in education

Erika Skoe

Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: plasticity of the auditory system, auditory evoked potentials, auditory neurophysiology

Rhiannon Smith 

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: Friendships and social-emotional adjustment in childhood and adolescence

William Snyder 

Faculty in Linguistics
Interests: Language Acquisition, Comparative Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface

Mackenzie Stabile

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Neuropsychology, Developmental & Acquired Language Disorders, Executive Function

Ian Stevenson

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Statistical Analysis of Neural Data, Adaptation and Plasticity

Umay Suanda

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: Early communication and language development, the input and the learning environment, the dynamics of early social interactions, statistical learning, mechanisms of word learning.

Elise Taverna

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Neuropsychology; Cognitive, language and social outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Rachel Theodore

Faculty in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Interests: Perceptual learning, phonetic variability, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition.

Hannah Thomas

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication, Neuropsychology

Rebecca Thomas

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Early identification and assessment of autism spectrum disorders, ASD screening methods in primary care settings

Susan Tilbury

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Ecological
Interests: Music Intervention, Rhythmic entrainment, Computational neuroscience, Consciousness, Collective effervescence and ecstatic ritual, Self-other merging, Biorhythmic aspects of anxiety and trauma disorders, Mindfulness and contemplative practices

Alexandria Tomkunas

Grad Student in Human Development & Family Sciences
Interests: Children’s social, emotional, and behavioral well-being, Education equity, School and community interventions, Child resilience

Anietie Williams

Grad Student in Chemistry

Emma Wing

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Event cognition, Sentence processing, Morphosyntax

Torri Ann Woodruff

Grad Student in Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences
Interests: the management of hearing loss with a focus on family centered interventions.

Christine Yantz

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Clinical
Interests: Neuropsychological assessment, fostering the development of coping skills and behavior change in adults, primarily in medical (pulmonary, cardiac, end-of-life) and medical rehabilitation (stroke, brain injured, amputation, spinal cord injury) populations. 

Emily Yearling

Grad Student in Psychological Sciences; Developmental
Interests: The interaction between perception and action in the developing brain, Development of categorical and conceptual knowledge, Cognitive development in early childhood

Eiling Yee

Faculty in Psychological Sciences; Language & Cognition
Interests: Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts. Spoken word recognition and language processing. The neural basis of language.

Elizabeth Zagata

Grad Student in Educational Psychology