Leyla Isik Receives NIH R01 Grant

Dr. Leyla Isik

NIMH funded Prof. Leyla Isik’s R01 proposal on “The neural computations underlying human social interaction recognition.”


Student Receives Distinguished Paper Award at CoNLL

Arehalli, Suhas

Fifth year PhD student Suhas Arehalli, received a Distinguished Paper Award for his paper at the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2022. The paper, Syntactic Surprisal From Neural […]


Student Receives Best Paper Award in Language Acquisition Journal

Nguyen, An

An Nguyen is first author of “The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency,” written with advisor Prof. Geraldine Legendre. This paper was selected by the Language Acquisition […]


New Faculty Announcement

Annemarie Kocab

In July 2023, Dr. Annemarie Kocab will join our department as an assistant professor. Her research seeks to understand what properties of the human mind give rise to language and how the structure of language reflects the structure of the mind. Dr. Kocab is currently recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and a lab manager to join the lab starting Summer/Fall 2023. […]


Kyle Rawlins & Team Receive Discovery Award

Kyle Rawlins

Congratulations to Kyle Rawlins for receiving a Discovery Award for a project in collaboration with Justin Bledin (Philosophy), Ying Chen (Economics), Chen Cheng (Carey School of Business), and Ali Khan (Economics) on “Deception and Bad-faith Communication.”


Prof. Brenda Rapp ft. in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Brenda Rapp headshot

Learn more about Prof. Rapp’s research, approach to teaching, and hobbies from a featurette in a recent JHU Arts & Sciences e-newsletter.


Prof. Rapp Elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists

Brenda Rapp headshot

Please join us in congratulating Brenda Rapp, who has just been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  Membership is a great honor as it recognizes significant accomplishments in experimental […]


Student Receives APA Dissertation Award

Grusha Prasad headshot

Congratulations to Grusha Prasad for receiving an American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award! The title of the dissertation is “Using priming in humans and neural networks to evaluate predictions […]


Prof. Leyla Isik ft. in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Dr. Leyla Isik

Another great feature on one of our faculty appeared in the in the Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter. Read up on it here…


Prof. Colin Wilson featured in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Colin Wilson

Did you catch the feature on Prof. Colin Wilson in this week’s Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter? Read up on it here…