School of Communication

People

Priniciple Investigator

Dr. Viorica Marian

Dr. Viorica Marian
vmarian@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-2420
Research interests: language processing in bilinguals, language and memory, neurolinguistics of bilingualism, and bilingual assessment
Recent publications:

Lab Manager

Marilyn Logan

Marilyn Logan
mjlogan@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-2656
Research interests: leadership in teams, bilingualism, stuttering, American Sign Language

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Luci Iordanescu

Dr. Luci Iordanescu
l-iordanescu@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-4507
Research interests: bilingualism, perception, attention, memory, cognitive neuroscience
Recent publications:

Dr. Xin Wang

Dr. Xin Wang
xin.wang1@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-1568
Research interests: bilingual representation and processing, bilingual lexicon, neurolinguistics of bilingualism
Recent publications:

PhD Candidates (ABD)

Anthony Shook

Anthony Shook
a-shook@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-2709
Research interests: language processing in bilinguals, computational models of language, and bimodal bilingualism
Recent presentation:

  • Shook, A., & Marian V. (under review). Bimodal Bilinguals Co-activate Both Languages during Spoken Comprehension.
  • Shook, A., & Marian V. (under review). The Bilingual Language Interaction Network for Comprehension of Speech.

Scott Schroeder

Scott Schroeder
schroeder@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-2709
Research interests: language and memory, bilingual audio-visual integration, cognitive aging
Recent publications:

  • Schroeder, S., & Marian, V. (in press). A bilingual advantage for episodic memory in older adults. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
  • Blumenfeld, H.K., Schroeder, S.R., & Marian, V. (under review). Age-related changes in inhibition and facilitation during word recognition.

James Bartolotti

James Bartolotti
j-bartolotti@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 312-521-0123
Research interests: novel language learning in monolinguals and bilinguals, and cross-linguistic interaction during learning
Recent publications:

PhD students

Sarah Chabal

Sarah Chabal
schabal@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-2709
Research interests: bilingual audio-visual integration and depth of bilingual language processing
Recent publications:

  • Schroeder, S. R., Marian, V., Shook, A., Bartolotti, J., & Chabal, S. A. (2011, November). Bilingual experience and inhibitory control influence novel word form learning. Poster session presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Jen Krizman

Jen Krizman
j-krizman@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-2459
Research interests: auditory processing in bilinguals, neural correlates of bilingualism
Recent presentations:

  • Krizman J., Marian V., Shook A., Skoe E., Kraus N. (under review) Bilingualism and the brain: Subcortical indices of enhanced executive function.
  • Krizman J., Marian V., Shook A., Skoe E., Kraus N. Bilinguals show enhanced subcortical representation of sound. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.

Chien-Ju Hsu

Chien-Ju Hsu
chienjuhsu@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-7197
Research interests: language processing and recovery in (bilingual) aphasia
Recent publications:

MASTER Student

Natalia L. Daniel

Natalia L. Daniel
nataliadaniel2012@u.northwestern.edu
Research interests: second language acquisition, interference between languages, orthography and auditory processing

Undergraduate Students

Paula Acuna

Paula Acuna
pacuna@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-736-7622 (cell)
847-673-5956 (home)
Research interests: language acquisition in bilinguals, language disorders

Tiffany Kim

Tiffany Kim
tiffanykim2014@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 917-348-7245
Research interests: language processing in bilinguals

Leah Perloff

Leah Perloff
leahperloff2015@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 610-945-7475
Research interests: language development in children with autism, language and memory in bilinguals, language processing for bilingual children with autism, typical and atypical language development in childhood


Lab Alumni

Henrike Blumenfeld, Ph.D.
currently Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
henrike.blumenfeld@sdsu.edu

Margarita Kaushanskaya, Ph.D.
currently Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
kaushanskaya@wisc.edu

Li Sheng, Ph.D.
currently Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin
lil-sh@northwestern.edu

Yasmeen Faroqi Shah, Ph.D.
currently Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
yshah@hesp.umd.edu

Caitlin Fausey, Ph.D. Standford University
currently Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Indiana
cmfausey@psych.stanford.edu

Alison Moy
currently M.D. student, University of Texas-Houston
a-moy-1@northwestern.edu

Jay Mittal
currently M.D. student, University of Pennsylvania
j-mittal@northwestern.edu

Elena Dukhovny
currently Ph.D. student, San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley
e_dukh@hotmail.com



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