Past Dissertation Fellowship in the Foundation of Language Recipients

2023-2024

Alexander Swiderski

School: University of Pittsburgh

Study: Communication Science and Disorders

Dissertation: “The Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Semantic Feature Generation In Persons
With Aphasia“

Garret Kurteff

School: The University of Texas at Austin

Study: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Dissertation: “Neurobiology of Speech Motor Control“

Julien Dirani

School: New York University

Study: Cognition & Perception

Dissertation: “The Temporal Dynamics of Modality-Independent Conceptual Representations“

Lauren Salig

School: University of Maryland, College Park

Study: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Dissertation: “How Bilinguals' Comprehension of Code-Switches Influences Attention and Memory“

Richard Antonello

School: University of Texas at Austin

Study: Computer Science

Dissertation: “Scaling Laws of Encoding Models for fMRI“

Soujin Choi

School: Northwestern University

Study: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Dissertation: “Predicting Future Reading Ability From Toddlers' Early Neural Processing of Speech:
Phonological Memory As A Mediating Pathway“

2022-2023

Brianne Chiappetta

School: Northwestern University

Study: PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Dissertation: “The Relationship Between Musical Training and Structural/Functional Connectivity of the Sentence Processing Network”

Carolyn Baker

School: San Diego State University/University of California San Diego

Study: Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders

Dissertation: “Mitigating Sentence Processing Impairments In Aphasia: A Lexical Approach”

Joseph Salvo

School: Northwestern University

Study: Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)

Dissertation: “Characterizing the Visual Word-Form Areas Relative to Large-Scale Networks in Individuals”

Li-Chuan Ku

School: University of Arizona

Study: Department of Psychology, Cognition and Neural Systems Graduate Program

Dissertation: “Using ERPs To Investigate The Representation And Processing Of Affective Language In Older Adults“

Rachel Zahn

School: Rice University

Study: Psychological Sciences

Dissertation: “Language Production and Working Memory Abilities in Healthy Younger and Older Adults”

Shailee Jain

School: The University of Texas at Austin

Study: Doctorate in Computer Science

Dissertation: “Understanding The Functional Organization Of Language Processing In Cortex Through Semantic Integration”

2021-2022

Keng-Yu Lin

School: University of Florida

Study: PhD program in the Department of Linguistics

Dissertation: “Proactive Control in Processing English Wh-dependencies”

Morgan Gianola

School: University of Miami

Study: Psychology

Dissertation: “Assessing the Neurobiological Mechanisms Between Language Processing, Cultural Contexts, and Pain among Spanish-English Bilinguals”

Niloofar Akhavan

School: San Diego State University/University of California San Diego

Study: Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders

Dissertation: “Gray And White Matter Correlates Of Real-Time Integration Processing During Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Individuals With Aphasia”

Saima Malik Moraleda

School: Harvard University

Study: Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

Dissertation: “Effects Of Bilingualism On Four Neural Networks Underlying High-Level Cognition“

Yoonjung Lee

School: John Hopkins University

Study: Psychological and Brain Sciences

Dissertation: “The Neural Bases Of Remembering And Communicating Narratives”

2020-2021

Andrea Takahesu

School: University of California, Irvine

Study: Language Science

Dissertation: “Using Brain Activity to Examine Cognitive and Contextual Variation in Adult Language Learning”

David Abugaber

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

Study: PhD in Hispanic Linguistics

Dissertation: “Disentangling Neural Indices of Implicit vs. Explicit Second Language Morphosyntactic Processing”

Dominick DiMercurio 

School: Pennsylvania State University

Study: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Dissertation: “Novel Network Approach to Modeling the Organization of Semantics”

Karina Tachihara

School: Princeton University

Study: Cognitive Psychology

Dissertation: “Learning Language through Neural Differation“

Tim Sainburg

School: University of California, San Diego

Study: Psychology

Dissertation: “Cognitive, Evolutionary, and Neural Foundations of Long-Range Sequential Organization in Language”

Xue Gong

School: University of California, Berkeley

Study: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Dissertation: “Cerebral Cortical Processing of Different Languages in Bilinguals”

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