2019-2020

Anna Mai

School: University of California, San Diego
Study: Linguistics
Dissertation: “Decoding the Neural Representation of Language-specific Phonological Contrast”

Chia-Hsuan Liao

School: University of Maryland
Study: Linguistics
Dissertation:“The Computation and Processing of Argument Structure in Online Sentence Comprehension”

Jeanne Gallée

School: Harvard University
Study: Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology
Dissertation: “Determining Behavioral Outcomes and Treatment-Induced Neuroplasticity following Tablet-Based Naming Intervention for PPA”

Joseph Posner

School: Georgetown University
Study: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Dissertation: “How Reading-related Functional Networks are Differentially Affected by Different Types of Word Stimuli “

Laura Gwilliams

School: New York University
Study: Cognition and Perception
Dissertation: “Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Speech Comprehension in the Human Brain”

Sara Popham

School: University of California, Berkeley
Study: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Dissertation: “Investigating Representations of Language During Internal Speech Production”

2018-2019

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta

School: New York University
Study: Psychology: Cognition and Perception
Dissertation:“Towards A Naturalized Neuroscience of Bilingualism”

Haley Dresang

School: University of Pittsburgh
Study:Communication Science & Disorders
Dissertation:“How the Neural Basis of Semantic Memory Supports and Are Distinguished from Language Processes”

Judy Kim

School: John Hopkins University
Study: Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dissertation:“The Moral Basis of Language in Blindness”

Mattson Ogg

School: University of Maryland, College Park
Study: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Dissertation: “Shared Cognitive Structures Between Music and Language”

2017-2018

Lauren Covey

School: University of Kansas
Study: Linguistics
Dissertation: “Individual Differences in the Processing of Wh-Dependencies by Native and Non-Native Speakers: An ERP investigation”

Qiuhai Yue

School: Rice University
Study: Department of Psychology
Dissertation: “Evaluating the buffer vs. embedded processes accounts of verbal short-term memory by using multivariate fMRI and brain stimulation approaches”

Robert Wiley

School: John Hopkins University
Study: Cognitive Science
Dissertation: “How the ability to learn and remember letters is affected by the learning experience”

2016-2017

Mor Regev

School: Princeton University
Study: Cognitive Psychology
Dissertation: “How the brain accommodates the processing of both spoken and written information and the interactions between them”

Geoffrey Brookshire

School: University of Chicago
Study: Psychology
Dissertation: “Oscillatory phase-locking in language comprehension across sensory modalities”

2015-2016

Kinsey Bice

School: The Pennsylvania State University
Study: Cognitive Psychology
Dissertation:“Using ERPs to capture native language changes during foreign language learning”

Tao Wei

School: Rice University
Study: Systems & Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissertation: “The influence of linguistic experience on speech production: Mechanism and neural correlates”

2014-2015

Jingyi Geng

School: Rice University
Study: Department of Psychology
Dissertation: “The role of classification when understanding words: A brain-behavior approach”

Michelle Ferrill

School: San Diego State University/UCSD
Study: Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders
Dissertation: “Brain-behavior links in the lexical and syntactic processing during sentence comprehension”

2013-2014

Denise Harvey

School: Rice University
Study: Department of Psychology

Kaitlyn Tagarelli

School: Georgetown University
Study: Department of Linguistics

Dissertation: “The Neurocognition of Adult Second Language Learning: An fMRI Study”

2012-2013

Kimberly Frey

School: University of Colorado at Boulder
Study: Department of Speech,
Language and
Hearing Services

Meagan Farrell

School: University of Florida
Study: Department of Psychology,
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
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Alexander Huth

School: University of California, Berkeley
Study: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Iain DeWitt

School: Georgetown University
Study: Interdisciplinary Program in
Neuroscience
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2010-2011

Agnes Jasinska

School: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Study: Neuroscience Program

Darren Tanner

School: University of Washington
Study: Department of Linguistics

Michael Wolmetz

School: John Hopkins University
Study: Department of Cognitive Science

2009-2010

Simon Fischer-Baum

School:John Hopkins University

Chia-Lin Lee

School: University of Illinois