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Name | Title | Department | Research Interests | |
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![]() | Gerry Altmann | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Sentence processing, event cognition, object representation |
![]() | Mary Anne Amalaradjou | Faculty | Animal Science | Probiotics based approaches to control food-borne infections, Host- microbiome interactions in health and disease |
![]() | Robert Astur | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Hippocampal memory, Virtual Reality testing of complex behaviors, Spatial memory and development, Gender differences, Substance Abuse, PTSD |
![]() | Ana Luisa Barbosa Torreao Dau | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Parenting, Attachment, Early childhood development, Early exposure to life stress and trauma, Disparities in mental health treatment |
![]() | Marianne Barton | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Early parent-child relationships, Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental trajectories in Autism |
![]() | Jaime Blackmon | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Anxiety, trauma, psychometric validation, stress |
![]() | Cynthia Boo | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Pragmatic language abilities of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Personal narrative production, Context effects on language production |
![]() | Hayes Brenner | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Music cognition, Rhythmic entrainment and its role on neurodevelopment, Neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD, etc.) |
![]() | Jeff Burke | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | The development of the disruptive behavior disorders, Chronic irritability and outcomes of depression and anxiety, Treatment and service engagement related to disruptive behavior disorders |
![]() | Jackie Caemmerer | Faculty | NEAG | Psychological Assessment Validity Issues, Relations between Social Variables and Academic Achievement and Application of Structural Equation Modeling & Longitudinal Analysis |
![]() | Renee Chasse | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Neurodevelopment, vocalizations in rodents |
![]() | Silvia Clement-Lam | Postdoctoral Trainee | Psychological Sciences | Using multimodal behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine the brain-behavioral basis of literacy development |
![]() | Cristina Colón-Semenza | Faculty | Kinesiology | Motivation, behavior change, social support, apathy, effort-based decision-making, health equity, mental health |
![]() | Hannah Cooke | Graduate Student | Curriculum & Instruction | Improving equity in undergraduate STEM education and developing justice-centered ambitious science teaching practices. |
![]() | Jeffrey Crawford | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, First Episode Psychosis, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Electroencephalography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Processing Speed, Attention, Motor Ability, Sensory Integration/Interference, Reward Processing. |
![]() | Nicole Cruse | Graduate Student | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Narrative and storytelling patterns; what those patterns can tell us about how language operates in the brain; and how using those patterns can be used as measurements for speech therapy and improved quality of life for those with neural-based communication disorders, primarily Aphasia and TBI. |
![]() | Jason Crutcher | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Psycholinguistics of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive neuropsychology of pragmatic language |
![]() | Kimberly Cuevas | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | The development of basic and higher order cognitive skills from infancy through childhood with a focus on how brain maturation and underlying brain-behavior associations contribute to early cognitive processes. Development of basic and higher-order cognitive processes, developmental cognitive/social neuroscience, EEG, ECG, Neural mirroring systems, Latent learning |
![]() | Adam David | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Trauma and recovery, Stress-related growth, Self-evaluation, Mindfulness-based interventions, Meaning-making, Habit formation |
![]() | Kelsey Davinson | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Memory Development, Infant Learning and Memory, Neuroimaging (EEG and MRI) |
![]() | Lee Drown | Predoctoral Trainee | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Speech perception, dyslexia, and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) |
![]() | Alev Ecevitoglu | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Behaviour, pharmacology, neuroscience, stress, and genetics |
![]() | Amy Egbert | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | The etiology, correlates, and treatment of disordered eating in youth from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. Her work examines how social and environmental influences (e.g., food marketing, access to healthy foods) impact these eating behaviors. |
![]() | Inge-Marie Eigsti | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | How to map complex behavioral constructs, such as social communication deficits, onto mechanistic processes in the brain; Psycholinguistics in autism spectrum disorders (acquisition of language, conversational gestures, discourse and executive processes, prosody); optimal outcomes in ASD; hyperlexia; savant musical skills; functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
![]() | Renee El-krab | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | HIV Treatment and Prevention |
![]() | Christiana Field | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Behavioral interventions for weight loss and weight loss maintenance. Social, cognitive, and environmental influences on weight, diet, and physical activity. |
![]() | Adrian Garcia-Sierra | Faculty | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials, speech perception, and bilingualism. |
![]() | Alexandra Garr-Schultz | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Identity, Self-definition, Experiences of Marginalization, Underrepresented groups, Multiple Identities, Authenticity Diversity and Inclusion, Equity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), and Experimental, Qualitative and Longitudinal approaches |
![]() | Jamilah George | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | PTSD; Racial Trauma; Chronic stress; Health disparities; Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders; Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy; Non-invasive Neuromodulation |
![]() | Nikole Giavannone | Graduate Student | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Speech Perception, Prosody, Functional Plasticity, and Electrophysiology |
![]() | Amy Gorin | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance, motivational and environmental processes that affect weight control, the impact of modifying the physical and social home environment on weight loss and maintenance, couples-based approaches to weight management and weight loss, and weight gain prevention in young adults. |
![]() | Corey Grantham | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Systemic racism and antiracist resistance, Social hierarchies (power, status, inequality), Team emergent states and processes, Personality and psychometrics |
![]() | Caitrin Hall | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Social dynamics, interpersonal coordination, and group synchronization. |
![]() | Brittney Hernandez | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Research on Evaluation (RoE) and Assessment Literacy |
![]() | Gabrielle Hettie | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Chronic pain, biopsychosocial factors, emotion regulation, health psychology |
![]() | James Hughes | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Aging at Work, Hiring Discrimination, Employee Engagement, Virtual Workplaces |
![]() | Gitte Joergensen | Postdoc | Psychological Sciences | Eye tracking and how to integrate eye movements with other measures such as fMRI and EEG |
![]() | Sara Johnson | Faculty | Literatures, Cultures, and Languages | Hellenistic Judaism, Ancient Fictions |
![]() | Steve Kinsey | Faculty | School of Nursing | Anxiety/Depression, Cannabinoid/opioid pharmacology, Chronic pain, Stress and Substance use disorders |
![]() | George Kuchel | Faculty | UConn Health | 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; Personalized and mechanism-guided approaches to the diagnosis and management of common geriatric syndromes- "Precision Geroscience" |
![]() | Nicole Landi | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Reading, Reading and Language Disorders, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging Genetics |
![]() | Caroline Larson | Postdoctoral Fellow | Psychological Sciences | 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. |
![]() | Oliver Lasnick | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Functional connectivity in reading and neurodevelopmental disorders, Temporal sampling and neural oscillations in language, Computational modeling |
![]() | Nathan Lautz | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive neuroscience of concepts, grounded cognition, semantic control, context effects in semantic memory |
![]() | Brittany Lee | Postdoctoral Trainee | Psychological Sciences | Psycholinguistics of reading and use of EEG and ERPs to investigate predictors of response to reading intervention in children with dyslexia. Language processing in deaf individuals, including phonological processing in American Sign Language (ASL), language co-activation in ASL-English bilinguals, and word processing in deaf readers. |
![]() | Jerin Lee | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Psychological and social processes that motivate changes in social cognition and health. Relations between sexual assault victimization, pain, PTSD, depression, anxiety; links between mindfulness and psychological/physical health. |
![]() | Sharon Lee | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Biobehavioral mechanisms linking trauma and PTSD with adverse physical health outcomes, with a focus on cardiovascular disease. |
![]() | Kaya LeGrand | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Language in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across the lifespan, language learning, and communication abilities of minimally verbal and nonverbal individuals with ASD. |
![]() | Wesley Leong | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Event cognition and Conceptual Processing in Language |
![]() | Michael Li | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | |
![]() | Jessica Loya | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Language acquisition in children, Heritage speakers |
![]() | Jie Luo | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Neural mechanisms of reading development and the neural signatures of successful reading instruction/learning intervention outcome. |
![]() | Jim Magnuson | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Neurobiology and psychology of language, including processing, development, and disorders of spoken and written language; computational models as theory-building tools; developing comprehensive understanding of language and learning over the lifespan from cognitive, neural, and genetic perspectives through interdisciplinary collaborations; science communication. |
![]() | Kelly Mahaffy | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Reading comprehension, development of language and reading, and brain structure and function underlying language abilities. |
![]() | Etan Markus | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Brain basis of behavior, focusing on rats. Specifically: Memory formation; Aging; Hippocampal system; Navigation; Social Interactions |
![]() | Kerry Marsh | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Immersive virtual reality methods; Ecological and dynamical approaches to environmental psychology; Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behavior; Implicit attitudes and HIV risk behavior; Social affordances and interpersonal coordination of movement |
![]() | Lisset Martinez-Berman | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Anti-vaccination attitudes and celebrity admiration, and health attitudes, |
![]() | Ruth McCleod | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury and Behavioral Outcomes |
![]() | Betsy McCoach | Faculty | Educational Psychology | Latent Variable Modeling, Instrument Design, Multilevel Modeling, Longitudinal Analysis, Quantitative Research Methodology, Gifted Education, and Underachievement |
![]() | Katherine McManus-Shipp | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Eating disorders, weight management, physical activity, and obesity; Body image, weight stigma, and excessive exercise; Health psychology; Primary and secondary prevention & intervention |
![]() | Hannah Mechtenberg | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | How analogical reasoning and language processing intersect to facilitate learning abstract concepts and in creative problem solving. Identifying the underlying functional connections within the brain that support analogical thinking throughout development. |
![]() | Jonas Miller | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Empathy and prosocial development, Adversity, Resilience, Developmental psychopathology, Developmental social neuroscience, Environmental health |
![]() | Jennifer Mozeiko | Faculty | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging. |
![]() | Emily Myers | Faculty | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, aphasia, speech perception. |
![]() | Letty Naigles | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Language acquisition across languages and etiologies |
![]() | Alexandra Paxton | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Communication and social interaction as a complex dynamical system (including movement, language, attention, and emotion), 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 | Graduate Student | Educational Psychology | Achievement gaps regarding English Language Learners and self-efficacy of bilingualism |
![]() | Kenneth Perez | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | |
![]() | Christian Piscopo | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Transformative Leadership and Team interaction |
![]() | Felicia Pratto | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Intergroup Relations, Dynamics of Power, Social Cognition |
![]() | Destiny Printz | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Trauma, chronic stress, and PTSD; Coping and resilience in marginalized communities; Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system and chronic health conditions; Translational research. |
![]() | Madeline Quam | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Language acquisition and emergence, homesign, sign languages, number cognition |
![]() | Nairan Ramirez-Esparza | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | How culture and language influences personality, behavior, and health. |
![]() | Carl Rodriguez | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Analgesic effects and potential side effects of phytochemicals found in the Cannabis plant; Behavioral Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Pain and Cannabis |
![]() | Ari Romano-Verthelyi | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Examining factors that affect Latinx families’ access to and engagement with mental health services, with particular focus on the referral process. |
![]() | David Saltzman | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Neural bases of speech perception, distributional learning of speech sound categories, adaptation to talker specific speech input |
![]() | Koyel Sen | Graduate Student | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Numerical modeling of particle dynamics and 3D printed tablet dosage form |
![]() | Natalie Shook | Faculty | School of Nursing | Social Psychology, Mindfulness, Behavior and well-being, Aging and Health Disparities, Pain |
![]() | Kristin Simmers | Graduate Student | Educational Psychology | How and to what extent knowledge from the interdisciplinary field of Mind, Brain and Education science (MBE) impacts novice or pre-service teachers’ beliefs, attitudes and actions. |
![]() | Sinead Sinnot | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Stress and health-related outcomes, Post-traumatic stress and resilience, Meditation and mindfulness, Cognitive neuropsychology related to memory and attention |
![]() | Erika Skoe | Faculty | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Plasticity of the auditory system, auditory evoked potentials, and auditory neurophysiology. |
![]() | Rhiannon Smith | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Friendships and social-emotional adjustment in childhood and adolescence |
![]() | William Snyder | Faculty | Linguistics | Language Acquisition, Comparative Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface |
![]() | Jon Sprouse | Faculty | Linguistics | Experimental Syntax |
![]() | Mackenzie Stabile | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Neuropsychology, Developmental & Acquired Language Disorders, and Executive Function |
![]() | Ian Stevenson | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Computational Neuroscience, Statistical Analysis of Neural Data, Adaptation and Plasticity |
![]() | Umay Suanda | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | 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 | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Neuropsychology; Cognitive, language and social outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
![]() | Rachel Theodore | Faculty | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Perceptual learning, phonetic variability, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition. |
![]() | Gray Thomas | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Interpersonal synchrony during conflict; Habit formation; Dynamics of misinformation; Leadership, motivation, and team dynamics. |
![]() | Hannah Thomas | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Optimal Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication, Neuropsychology |
![]() | Rebecca Thomas | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Early identification and assessment of autism spectrum disorders, ASD screening methods in primary care settings |
![]() | Susan Tilbury | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | 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 | Graduate Student | Human Development & Family Sciences | Children’s social, emotional, and behavioral well-being, Education equity, School and community interventions, Child resilience |
![]() | Kiranmayi Vedantham | Graduate Student | UConn Health | |
![]() | Portia Washington | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Auditory and written language comprehension post-TBI, culturally informed approaches to research, aphasia. |
![]() | Anietie Williams | Graduate Student | Chemistry | |
![]() | Emma Wing | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Event cognition, Sentence processing, Morphosyntax |
![]() | Torri Ann Woodruff | Graduate Student | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | The management of hearing loss with a focus on family centered interventions. |
![]() | Christine Yantz | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | |
![]() | Emily Yearling | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | The interaction between perception and action in the developing brain, Development of categorical and conceptual knowledge, Cognitive development in early childhood. |
![]() | Eiling Yee | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts. Spoken word recognition and language processing. The neural basis of language. |
![]() | Elizabeth Zagata | Graduate Student | Educational Psychology | The intersection of literacy and assessment with policy and special education law. |