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| Name | Conferral Year | Dissertation Title | Initial Placement | Current Position (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis, E. Emory | 2020 | Does Seeing Mean Believing? The Development of Children's Semantic Representations for Perception Verbs | Postdoctoral Fellow School of Education & Dept of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ. | |
| Clothier, Karen | 2020 | The Many Meanings of Many: A Pragmatic-Semantic Account of Ambiguous, Vague Quantifiers with Experimental Support | Senior Analyst Spectrum Policy and Regulations Teltrium Solutions LLC | |
| Ellenblum, Gali | 2019 | Cognitive and Computational Modeling of Handwriting | Machine Learning Engineer Apple | |
| Park, Jeongho | 2018 | Neural Coding of Navigational Distance and Functional Constraint of a Local Scene Boundary | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ. | |
| Wiley, Robert W. | 2018 | How Learning Experience Shapes the Cognitive and Neural Representations of Letters | Lecturer Dept. of Psychology UNC Greensboro | Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychology UNC Greensboro |
| Chodroff, Eleanor R. | 2017 | Structured Variation in Obstruent Production and Perception | Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Linguistics Northwestern Univ. | Lecturer in Phonetics & Phonology Dept. of Language & Linguistic Science Univ. of York |
| Breining, Bonnie L. | 2016 | Effects of Semantic and Segmental Similarity on the Production and Learning of Spoken and Written Words | Postdoctoral Fellow SCORE Lab Dept. of Neurology Johns Hopkins Medicine | |
| Atkinson, Emily E. | 2016 | Active dependency completion in adults and children: Representations and adaptation | Language Learning Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Michigan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Weinberg Institute of Cognitive Science Univ. of Michigan |
| Rothlein, David | 2015 | Letter Representation in the Mind and Brain | Postdoctoral Researcher VA Boston Healthcare System | |
| Ferrara, Katrina | 2015 | Neural and behavioral sensitivity to boundary cues across typical and atypical development | Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Brain Plasticity & Recovery Children's National Medical Center | |
| Johannes, Kristen N. | 2015 | Geometric and functional knowledge in the acquisition of spatial language | STEM Research Associate WestEd | |
| Schubert, Teresa | 2015 | Cognitive processes of letter and digit identification | Postdoctoral Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition & its Disorders Macquarie Univ. | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ. |
| Hsin, Lisa | 2014 | Explorations in Integrated Bilingual Grammatical Architecture | Postdoctoral Scholar Dept. of Philosophy Tufts Univ. | Research Fellow, Strategic Education Research Partnership Inst.; Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| Kirov, Christo | 2014 | A Bayesian approach to speech production | Postdoctoral Assist. Prof. Dept. of Linguistics Georgetown Univ. | Research Software Engineer Google AI |
| Beller, Charles | 2013 | Anaphoric descriptions | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ. | Natural Language Processing Analyst Watson Transformations IBM |
| Gurcanlı, Özge | 2013 | Development of lexical and syntactic representations: The Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical verbs | Lecturer Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ. | |
| Rissman, Lilia | 2013 | Event participant representations and the instrumental role: A Cross-linguistic study | Postdoctoral Scholar Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Chicago | Research Scientist Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Vindiola, Manuel | 2013 | Representational similarity: A Uniform method for guiding sequence production and constraining response selection during serial order production in spelling | Postdoctoral Fellow Computational & Info Sciences, US Army Research Lab | Research Psychologist US Army Research Lab |
| Zaroukian, Erin | 2013 | Quantification and (un)certainty | Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique École Normale Supérieure | Cognitive Scientist Computational and Information Sciences US Army Research Lab |
| Fischer-Baum, Simon J. | 2011 | Position representation: General principles or domain-specificity? | Postdoctoral Researcher Beckman Inst. Univ. of Illinois | Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ. |
| Ramadoss, Deepti | 2011 | The Phonology and phonetics of tone perception | Research Scientist Dept. of Neurology & Neuroscience Johns Hopkins Univ. | Assist. Director for Training, Assessment, and Career Exploration Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| Wolmetz, Michael | 2011 | How we store the sounds of words: Examining the predictions of abstract and exemplar theories of spoken word recognition | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ. | Program Manager Human & Machine Intelligence, Research & Exploratory Development Dept. JHU Applied Physics Lab |
| Culbertson, Jennifer L. | 2010 | Learning biases, regularization, and the emergence of typological universals in syntax | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Univ. of Rochester | Reader Centre for Language Evolution Univ. of Edinburgh |
| Goldberg, Ariel M. | 2010 | Gradient well-formedness across the morpheme boundary | Instructor Dept. of Psychology Tufts Univ. | Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Tufts Univ. |
| Gregory, Emma | 2010 | Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from mirror image confusion | Postdoctoral Fellow Neuro-Education Initiative Johns Hopkins Univ. | Research Scientist Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center General Dynamics |
| López-González, Mónica | 2010 | Ser and Estar: Their syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition in Mexican Spanish | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Otolaryngology Johns Hopkins Univ. | Co-Founder & Scientific and Artistic Director La Petite Noiseuse Productions |
| Yarmolinskaya, Julia | 2010 | Perception and acquisition of second language phonology | Postdoctoral Fellow School of Education Johns Hopkins Univ. | Lecturer Ctr. for Language Education Johns Hopkins Univ. |
| Wayment, Adam | 2009 | Assimilation as attraction: Computing distance, similarity and locality in phonology | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Sr. Program Manager Speech and Audio Platform Microsoft |
| Dessalegn, Banchiamlack G. | 2009 | A Vision of language: The mechanism, development and consequence of an interaction between language and vision | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Chicago | Strategic Programmes Director Marie Stopes International |
| Finley, Sara R. | 2009 | Formal and cognitive restrictions on vowel harmony | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Science Univ. of Rochester | Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Pacific Lutheran Univ. |
| Morley, Rebecca L. | 2009 | Generalization, lexical statistics, and typologically rare systems | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Linguistics Ohio State Univ. | Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Ohio State Univ. |
| Nicol-Medina, Tamara I. | 2007 | Learning which verbs allow object omission: Verb semantic selectivity and the implicit object construction | Postdoctoral Fellow Inst. of Research in Cognitive Science Univ. of Pennsylvania | Assistant Professor - Teaching Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Delaware |
| Chen-Main, Joan C. | 2006 | On the generation and linearization of multi-dominance structures | Postdoctoral Fellow Inst. for Research in Cognitive Science Univ. of Pennsylvania | Student Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies |
| Jarosz-Snover, Gaja E. | 2006 | Rich lexicons and restrictive grammars - maximum likelihood learning in optimality theory | Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst | Associate Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Medina, O. Jared | 2006 | Somatosensory frames of reference | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Neurology Univ. of Pennsylvania | Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Delaware |
| Savova, Virginia Z. | 2006 | Structures and strings | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT | Principal Sr. Scientist/Lab Head Precision Immunology Sanofi |
| Buchwald, Adam B. | 2005 | Sound structure representation, repair and well-formedness: Grammar in spoken language production | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Speech Research Lab Indiana Univ. | Associate Professor Dept. of Communicative Sciences & Disorders New York Univ. |
| Dilks, Daniel D. | 2005 | Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortion | Postdoctoral Researcher McGovern Inst. for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychology Emory Univ. |
| Lakusta, Laura M. | 2005 | Source and goal asymmetry in non-linguistic motion event representations | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ. | Professor Dept. of Psychology Montclair State Univ. |
| Davidson, Lisa B. | 2003 | The Atoms of phonological representation: Gestures, coordination and perceptual features in consonant cluster phonotactics | Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics New York Univ. | Professor Dept. of Linguistics New York Univ. |
| Hale, John T. | 2003 | Grammar, 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. | 2002 | Patterns of sounds, patterns in mind: Phonological regularities in speech production | Postdoctoral Research Associate Dept. of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences Brown Univ. | Professor Dept. of Linguistics Northwestern Univ. |
| Frantisek Kuminiak | 2001 | The Role of lexical ambiguity in the production of subject-verb agreement | Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ. | Sr. Consultant Softec |
| Wilson, Colin C. | 2000 | Targeted constraints: An approach to contextual neutralization in optimality theory | Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of California, Los Angeles | Professor Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ. |
| Allen, Mark D. | 2000 | The Representation and processing of inflected forms in a multilevel lexical system | Research Scientist Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Washington | Director of Concussion Research CognitiveFX |
| Cartwright, Timothy A. | 1996 | Early acquisition of syntactic categories: Theory and simulations | Software Developer Applied Physics Lab Johns Hopkins Univ. | Sr. Systems Programmer Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of Wisconsin |
| Gafos, Adamantios I. | 1996 | The Articulatory basis of locality in phonology | Visiting Assistant Professor Univ. of Massachusetts | Professor Dept. of Linguistics Universitat Postdam |
| Leek, E. Charles | 1996 | The Representation of object orientation | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale Universite Pierre Mendes | Professor Dept. of Health and Life Sciences Univ. of Liverpool |
| Whalen, John W. | 1996 | The Influence of semantic number representations on arithmetic fact retrieval | Assistant Professor Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Science Univ. of Delaware | Founder & CEO Brilliant Experience |
| Chialant, Doriana | 1995 | Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness | Postdoctoral Respecialization Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Massachusetts | Neuropsychologist Lifestyle Nutrition Management |