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NameConferral YearDissertation TitleInitial PlacementLast Known Position
(if different)
Arehalli, Suhas2023Structural Representations in Online Syntactic Processing: An Artificial Neural Network ApproachAssistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Macalester College
Nguyen, An2023Acquiring Syntactic Variation: Regularization in Wh-Question ProductionHuman Factors Consultant
SEA Ltd
Neophytou, Kyriaki2023Selection in Written Language Production: Evidence from AphasiaPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Zhu, Hongru2023Investigating compositional visual knowledge through challenging visual tasksApplied Scientist
Cruise
McCoy, Tom2022Implicit compositional structure in artificial neural networksPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Psychology
Princeton University
Prasad, Grusha2022Towards Characterizing Incremental Structure Building During Sentence ComprehensionAssistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Colgate University
Li, S.P. Donald2021Computational Models of Feature Representations in the Ventral Visual StreamPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Lalisse, Matthias2021Structure assembly in knowledge base representationIndependent Consultant
Srinivas, Sadhwi2021The semantics of (in)definiteness in bare vs. non-bare nominals: A study of Kannada and English Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Dept of English
College of William & Mary
Kim, Najoung2021Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Artificial Neural NetworksFaculty Fellow
Center for Data Science
New York Univ.
Assistant Professor
Depts. of Linguistics & Computer Science
Boston Univ.
Litovsky, Celia2021Structural Connectivity Underlying Executive Processing in Post-stroke AphasiaPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Temple Univ.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology Bryn Mawr College
Lutken, C. Jane2021Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Syntactic Creativity Errors In Children's Wh-QuestionsPostdoctoral Associate
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers Univ.
Davis, E. Emory2020Does Seeing Mean Believing? The Development of Children's Semantic Representations for Perception VerbsPostdoctoral Fellow
School of Education & Dept of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Research Specialist, Title I
Office of Research
Baltimore County Public Schools
Clothier, Karen2020The Many Meanings of Many: A Pragmatic-Semantic Account of Ambiguous, Vague Quantifiers with Experimental SupportSenior Spectrum Policy and Regulations Analyst
Teltrium Solutions, LLC
Chaisilprungraung, Pang2020Axes in Object-Centered Shape Representation: Insights from Mirror-Image Reflection ErrorsPostdoctoral Research Fellow
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Research Scientist
King Mongkut's University of Technology
Ellenblum, Gali2019Cognitive and Computational Modeling of HandwritingMachine Learning Engineer
Apple
Manager
Safe Browsing
Google
Park, Jeongho2018Neural Coding of Navigational Distance and Functional Constraint of a Local Scene BoundaryPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Harvard Univ.
Research Associate
Dept. of Psychology
Harvard Univ.
Wiley, Robert W.2018How Learning Experience Shapes the Cognitive and Neural Representations of LettersLecturer
Dept. of Psychology
UNC Greensboro
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology
UNC Greensboro
Chodroff, Eleanor R. 2017Structured Variation in Obstruent Production and PerceptionPostdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Linguistics
Northwestern Univ.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computational Linguistics
University of Zürich
Atkinson, Emily E.2016Active dependency completion in adults and children: Representations and adaptationLanguage Learning Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Michigan
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Language Studies
University of Toronto
Breining, Bonnie L.2016Effects of Semantic and Segmental Similarity on the Production and Learning of Spoken and Written WordsPostdoctoral Fellow
SCORE Lab
Dept. of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Rothlein, David 2015Letter Representation in the Mind and BrainPostdoctoral Researcher
VA Boston Healthcare System
Ferrara, Katrina2015Neural and behavioral sensitivity to boundary cues across typical and atypical developmentPostdoctoral Fellow
Center for Brain Plasticity & Recovery
Children's National Medical Center
Science Policy Analyst
Office of Autism Research Coordination
US Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee
Schubert, Teresa2015Cognitive processes of letter and digit identificationPostdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition & its Disorders
Macquarie Univ.
Senior Editor, Springer Nature Group
Johannes, Kristen N.2015Geometric and functional knowledge in the acquisition of spatial languageSTEM Research Associate
WestEd
Senior Research Associate
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
WestEd
Hsin, Lisa2014Explorations in Integrated Bilingual Grammatical ArchitecturePostdoctoral Scholar
Dept. of Philosophy
Tufts Univ.
Senior Researcher
American Institutes for Research
Kirov, Christo2014A Bayesian approach to speech productionPostdoctoral Assist. Prof.
Dept. of Linguistics
Georgetown Univ.
Research Software Engineer
Google AI
Gurcanlı, Özge2013Development of lexical and syntactic representations: The Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical verbsPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Rice Univ.
Science Policy & Programs Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Rissman, Lilia2013Event participant representations and the instrumental role: A Cross-linguistic studyPostdoctoral Scholar
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. of Chicago
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Rochester Institute of Technology
Beller, Charles2013Anaphoric descriptionsPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Principal Data Scientist & NLP Lead: Manager, Customer Care Elite
IBM
Zaroukian, Erin2013Quantification and (un)certaintyPostdoctoral Fellow
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
École Normale Supérieure
Cognitive Scientist
Computational and Information Sciences
US Army Research Lab
Vindiola, Manuel2013Representational similarity: A Uniform method for guiding sequence production and constraining response selection during serial order production in spellingPostdoctoral Fellow
Computational & Info Sciences, US Army Research Lab
AI Research Scientist
US Army Research Lab
Wolmetz,
Michael
2011How we store the sounds of words: Examining the predictions of abstract and exemplar theories of spoken word recognitionPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Program Manager
Human & Machine Intelligence, Research & Exploratory Development Dept.
JHU Applied Physics Lab
Fischer-Baum, Simon J.2011Position representation: General principles or domain-specificity?Postdoctoral Researcher
Beckman Inst.
Univ. of Illinois
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Rice Univ.
Ramadoss, Deepti2011The Phonology and phonetics of tone perceptionResearch Scientist
Dept. of Neurology & Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Assist. Director for Training, Assessment, and Career Exploration
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Culbertson, Jennifer L.2010Learning biases, regularization, and the emergence of typological universals in syntaxPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Univ. of Rochester
Professor & Director of the Centre for Language Evolution, Dept of Linguistics & English Language, Univ. of Edinburgh
Yarmolinskaya, Julia2010Perception and acquisition of second language phonologyPostdoctoral Fellow
School of Education
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins Univ.
López-González, Mónica2010Ser and Estar: Their syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition in Mexican SpanishPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Otolaryngology
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Cognitive Science, JHU; Co-Founder & CEO, Cognitive Insights for AI
Gregory, Emma2010Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from mirror image confusionPostdoctoral Fellow
Neuro-Education Initiative
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Director of Research
Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center
General Dynamics
Goldberg, Ariel M.2010Gradient well-formedness across the morpheme boundaryInstructor
Dept. of Psychology
Tufts Univ.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Tufts Univ.
Morley, Rebecca L.2009Generalization, lexical statistics, and typologically rare systemsPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Linguistics
Ohio State Univ.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Ohio State Univ.
Wayment, Adam 2009Assimilation as attraction: Computing distance, similarity and locality in phonologyPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Principal Program Manager Lead
Accessibility + AI
Microsoft
Dessalegn, Banchiamlack G.2009A Vision of language: The mechanism, development and consequence of an interaction between language and visionPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. of Chicago
Director
MSI Reproductive Choices, Africa
Finley, Sara R.2009Formal and cognitive restrictions on vowel harmonyPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Science
Univ. of Rochester
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Medina, Tamara Nicol2007Learning which verbs allow object omission: Verb semantic selectivity and the implicit object constructionPostdoctoral Fellow
Inst. of Research in Cognitive Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Associate Teaching Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Emory University
Jarosz-Snover, Gaja E.2006Rich lexicons and restrictive grammars - maximum likelihood learning in optimality theoryVisiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Medina,
O. Jared
2006Somatosensory frames of referencePostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Neurology
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Emory University
Chen-Main, Joan C.2006On the generation and linearization of multi-dominance structuresPostdoctoral Fellow
Inst. for Research in Cognitive Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Research Associate
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Savova, Virginia Z.2006Structures and stringsPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Distinguished Scientist
Precision Immunology
Sanofi
Buchwald, Adam B.2005Sound structure representation, repair and well-formedness: Grammar in spoken language productionPostdoctoral Research Fellow
Speech Research Lab
Indiana Univ.
Professor
Dept. of Communicative Sciences & Disorders
New York Univ. Steinhardt
Lakusta,
Laura M.
2005Source and goal asymmetry in non-linguistic motion event representationsPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Harvard Univ.
Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Montclair State Univ.
Dilks, Daniel D.2005Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortionPostdoctoral Researcher
McGovern Inst. for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Emory Univ.
Davidson, Lisa B.2003The Atoms of phonological representation: Gestures, coordination and perceptual features in consonant cluster phonotacticsAssistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
New York Univ.
Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
New York Univ.
Hale,
John T.
2003Grammar, uncertainty and sentence processing.Assistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages
Michigan State Univ.
Professor
Dept. of Linguistics & Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Univ. of Georgia
Goldrick, Matthew A. A.2002Patterns of sounds, patterns in mind: Phonological regularities in speech productionPostdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
Brown Univ.
Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Northwestern Univ.
Frantisek Kuminiak2001The Role of lexical ambiguity in the production of subject-verb agreementPostdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychology
Rice Univ.
Sr. Consultant
Softec
Wilson, Colin C.2000Targeted constraints: An approach to contextual neutralization in optimality theoryAssistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Professor
Dept. of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Allen, Mark D.2000The Representation and processing of inflected forms in a multilevel lexical systemResearch Scientist
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. of Washington
Director of Concussion Research
CognitiveFX
Gafos, Adamantios I.1996The Articulatory basis of locality in phonologyVisiting Assistant Professor
Univ. of Massachusetts
Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Universitat Postdam
Leek, E. Charles1996The Representation of object orientationPostdoctoral Research Fellow
Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale
Universite Pierre Mendes
Professor
Dept. of Health and Life Sciences
Univ. of Liverpool
Whalen, John W.1996The Influence of semantic number representations on arithmetic fact retrievalAssistant Professor
Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Science
Univ. of Delaware
Founder
Partner, Psychological Insights & Innovation
Brilliant
Cartwright, Timothy A.1996Early acquisition of syntactic categories: Theory and simulationsSoftware Developer
Applied Physics Lab
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Sr. Systems Programmer
Center for High Throughput Computing, Dept. of Computer Sciences
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Chialant, Doriana1995Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindnessPostdoctoral Respecialization
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. of Massachusetts
Clinical Associate
Dept. of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

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