| Erica Ellis, B.A.
Erica is a first year doctoral student in SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders. She graduated from San Diego State in Communicative Disorders and Psychology in May 2006. She has been a member of Dr. Evans' Child Language and Cognitive Processes Lab since June 2006. Erica's research interests are the environmental effects of early language development and disorders, including maternal input, word learning and the range of implicit learning abilities in young children. |
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| Georgia Hall
Georgia is a Senior in the Psychology Undergraduate program working on her Senior Honors Thesis focusing on implicit statistical?word learning in monolingual English speakers. Using the?Electroencephalography technology, she is investigating real-time word learning using event-related potentials; comparing N100 and N400 to determine if there are differences in early as compared to later word learning. ?She also plans to explore the spatial locations and effects of ?activation within the brain regions to further allow understanding and analysis to the complex topic of how novel word learning occurs.
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| Deanna Hughes, Ph.D.
Deanna Hughes is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Julia Evans at San Diego State University. Her research interests include adolescent? development in adolescents with specific language impairment as well as typical populations. She has worked clinically in both school and medical settings as is keenly interested in clinical applications of current research.
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| Keri Jackson
Keri is a senior in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. She is very interested in children and learning more about research.
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| Amanda Parra
Amanda is a Masters student and is completing her first semester at SDSU. She received her B.S. from NYU in Communicative Disorders. Amanda is interested in learning about research and opportunities in the research lab.
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| Lara Polse
Lara Polse graduated UC Davis in 2006 with a BA in Linguistics and Psychology. She received highest honors upon graduation for her Senior Honors Thesis entitled, "Integrating Literal and Figurative Meanings into Sentence Contexts of Varying Constraint: an ERP study" under the direction of Dr. Tamara Swaab. In collaboration with Dr. Swaab, Lara has also studied the interaction of discourse congruity on semantic priming (presented in a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting in New York in 2007), and the integration of literal and figurative words into a sentence context (presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting n San Francisco in 2006). Lara is currently a first year PhD student in the Joint Doctoral Program at SDSU and UCSD in Language and Communicative Disorders. She is working in collaboration with Dr. Julia Evans, and plans to continue using Event Related Potentials to look at sentential processing in children both with and without Specific Language Impairment. |
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| Alison Scheer-Cohen, Ph.D.
Alison R. Scheer-Cohen, Ph.D., is currently a post-doctoral research associate for the Child Language and Cognitive Processes Laboratory, San Diego State University and Phonology Project, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include the speech and resonance of children with sensorimotor speech disorders and craniofacial dysmorphologies.
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| Marisa Sizemore, M.A.
Marisa Sizemore is a first year doctoral student in SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She has her Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology, received in August 2006 from SDSU's School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. During her MA program, Marisa worked in Dr. Thal's Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab from 2003-2006, and completed her thesis, "Gesture Use in Children With and Without a History of Language Delay During Narrative Retells" under the mentorship of Dr. Thal. Marisa received her Bachelor's degree in Linguistics and French from the University of California - Berkeley in 2001. She gained experience transcribing and analyzing gesture use in adults as a member of the Berkeley Gesture Project under the supervision of Eve Sweetser from 2000-2002. Marisa's research interests include language development and cognitive processing in typical and atypical populations, event-related brain potentials, and gesture use. |
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