Co-director Bryan Gick named AAAS Fellow in 2020
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| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence (AI); Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic |
| Asselin, Marlene | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Language Acquisition and Development; International Development; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); early literacy; literacy and international development; libraries and education |
| Babel, Molly | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Phonetics; Recognition of Speech; Perception and Representation; Acoustics; Dialects; speech perception; acoustics of speech production; spoken word recognition; phonetic variation |
| Bailey, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurobiological basis of autistic disorders, using genetic, neuropathological and neuroimaging approaches |
| Ballarin, Roberta | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophical logic, nature and sources of necessity |
| Baron, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | cognitive development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, racism, race, stereotypes, cooperation, bias, innateness, science education, multiculturalism, gender, ethnicity, neuromarketing, attitudes, preferences, psychology |
| Bartha, Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy of sciences and technologies; Environmental philosophy; Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Confirmation, Decision Theory |
| Bedke, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Foundations of Ethics; Social Organization and Political Systems; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; metaethics; ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of law; epistemology |
| Birch, Susan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development My primary area of expertise is the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)., Development of language, learning, and social understanding in infants and children |
| Black, Alexis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive sciences |
| Bouchard, Marie-Eve | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Humanities and the arts; Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; ethnography; language ideologies; Language and identity; migration; Language variation and change; Language contact; Creole languages |
| Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | machine/statistical learning; mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology |
| Bournot-Trites, Monique | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Teaching and Learning Systems; bilingualism; French immersion; Language Assessment; Intercultural communication; reading |
| Bowers, Katherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Arts and Literary Policies; Russian literature; Russian culture; literary culture; genre; narrative; imagined geography; the novel; Dostoevsky; gothic fiction |
| Boyd, Lara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; Stroke; Learning and Memory; Physiology; Motor learning; Motor System; Learning; Neurophysiology |
| Brinton, Laurel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Modern English Grammar, History of the English Language, English Usage, English Dictionaries, Pragmatics of English, Discourse Markers, Language Change, Computers and Language Study, History of English |
| Cannon, Joanna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Special Education and Social Adaptation; Teacher Education; Educational Approaches; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Language Acquisition and Development; Cognition and Language; Literacy Training; Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing with complex language or cognitive needs |
| Carenini, Giuseppe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence, user modeling, decision theory, machine learning, social issues in computing, computational linguistics, information visualization |
| Casas Aguilar, Anna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Ciocca, Valter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Auditory System; Perception and Representation; Recognition of Speech; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Auditory grouping of speech and non-speech sounds, also known as "auditory scene analysis"; perception and production of normal and disordered speech |
| Colozzo, Paola | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental language disorders; language and cognition; discourse, assessment and intervention for children with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds |
| Dancygier, Barbara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics, grammar |
| Davis, Henry Thomas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | First Nations languages |
| De Villiers, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics |
| Dechaine, Rose-Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Native American languages; Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe; French / English bilingualism policy; formal linguistics; generative grammar (Chomsky); West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo); Nigerian languages; literacy vs. oralcy; language planning re: French, Indigenous languages, Speech/gesture coordination, syntactic interface relations |
| Dollinger, Stefan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
| Duff, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adolescent Issues; Adult Education Issues; English as a Second Language; French and Second Languages; International Perspectives; language education; Literacy; Multiple Literacies |
| Early, Margaret | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adolescent issues, English as a second Language, language education, literacy, teacher research |
| Enns, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation; attention; action kinematics; social perception; perceptual development |
| Fels, S Sidney | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human computer interaction, human 3D biomechanical modeling, speech synthesis, medical applications of modeling, computer vision, interactive arts and music |
| Field, Thalia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | stroke; Clinical trials; cerebral venous thrombosis; outcomes; cognition; Machine Learning |
| Frackman, Kyle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Literary Policies; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Artistic and Literary Theories; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Social Determinants of Arts and Letters; Cultural Industries; Sexuality; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; German studies; queer studies; Gender Studies; sexuality studies; literature; film; East Germany; Scandinavia; affect; Media; history of sexuality; history of science |
| Giaschi, Deborah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Vision; Visual System; Sensation and Perception; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Infant / Child Development; amblyopia; reading |
| Gick, Bryan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages, Physical mechanisms of speech production, speech research |
| Griffin, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic |
| Gunderson, Lee Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | ESL, multiculturalism |
| Hall, David Geoffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Lexical and conceptual development, semantic development, language acquisition |
| Hall, Kathleen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology |
| Hamlin, Kiley | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive Development; Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals; Infant / Child Development; Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts; Infant moral cognition; infant social cognition |
| Hansson, Gunnar | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Cognitive sciences; theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic |
| Herdman, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Auditory System; Visual System; Audiovisual, Visual, Audio and Written Communications; Electrophysiology; Language and Cognitive Processes; Neuroimaging Methods (EEG/MEG); Central auditory processing; Auditory and visual perecptions related to reading acquisition (1st and 2nd languages); Brain computer interface |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Voice and Opera |
| Howe, Tami | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Acquired language disorders, aphasia |
| Hudson Kam, Carla | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, Psychology, First and second language acquisition, gesture and language learning, language contact and language change |
| Jenstad, Lorienne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; hearing aids; Aging; audiology; hearing health; amplification |
| Kobor, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epigenetics; Social Epigenetics; molecular biology; Chromatin Biology |
| Kubota, Ryuko | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Language Rights and Policies; language education; multicultural education; culture and language; race and language teaching; language ideologies; critical applied linguistics |
| Li, Guofang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | longitudinal studies of immigrant children |
| MacLean, Karon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Information Systems; human-computer interaction; haptic interfaces; human-robot interaction; design of user interfaces |
| Malakaj, Ervin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy |