People
Faculty
Marina Bedny Marina Bedny CV 410-516-2841 marina.bedny at jhu dot edu 231 Ames Hall
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Emily Silvano esilva8 at jhu dot edu Research interests: I am interested in understanding how different life experiences can affect sentence processing and the neural basis of language. Currently my research investigates how congenitally blind people and sighted people process complex sentences during reading and listening.
Yun-Fei Liu yliu at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I study how the brain learns brand-new skills like computer programming. Coding is a very recent invention, and our brains don’t grow new parts for it; instead, they cleverly "recycle" systems for logical reasoning and recruits help from language systems. By combining brain imaging and behavioral research, I seek to understand not just how we program computers, but how our minds program themselves to learn.
Graduate Students
Abby Clements acleme18 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I study how different modalities and experiences shape language in the brain. I specifically work with braille and ASL.
Miriam Hauptman mhauptm1 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I use neural and behavioral measures to study how human concepts change with experience.
Akshi alnu1 at jhu dot edu
Ziwen Wang zwang252 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I am interested in how the brain supports language and logical reasoning, and how developmental experience shapes these processes.
Zaida McClinton zmcclin1 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I’m interested in neuroplasticity and the brain's ability to enhance itself and adapt to a variety of stimuli. I am also interested in understanding exactly how experiences are received, processed, and stored by the brain.
Lab Manager
Elizabeth Droubi edroubi1 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: Neuroplasticity in congenitally deaf individuals and L1 sign language users.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Yein Han yhan90 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I am interested in how blind individuals utilize neural circuits while reading Braille, and more broadly, in how neuroplasticity allows different life experiences to shape human cognition and thought processes.
Gabriel Pernell gpernel1 at jhu dot edu Research Interests: I’m interested in how the brain works to overcome or adapt to changes either from birth or due to stimuli in the environment. I’d love to explore how these functions of the brain can be represented computationally.
Alumni
Mita Singh - Former research assistant
Clarissa Alfonso - Former research assistant
Catherine Chen - Former research assistant
Laila Paredes - Former research assistant
Lisa Munz - Former postdoc
Liz Saccone - Former postdoc
Hannah Yun - Former research assistant (current clinical research coordinator at MIT/MGH)
Ziqi Chen - Former research assistant (current master’s student in Applied Math and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University)
Mengyu Tian - Former postdoc (current professor at Beijing Normal University)
Brianna Aheimer - Former research assistant (current graduate student at Southern College of Optometry)
Judy Kim - Former graduate student (current postdoc at Yale University with Molly Crockett)
Giulia Elli - Former graduate student (current postdoc at University of Michigan with Susan Gelman)
Shipra Kanjlia - Former graduate student (current postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University with Jessica Cantlon)
Nora Harhen - Former research assistant (current cognitive science graduate student at University of California Irvine)
Rita Loiotile - Former graduate student (current intern at Insight Data Science)
Rashi Pant - Former research assistant (current neuropsychology graduate student at University of Hamburg with Brigette Röder)
Connor Lane - Former research assistant (current computer science graduate student at Johns Hopkins University)
Undergraduate Alumni
Erin Brush (current medical assistant at Capital Dermatology, entering medical school August 2020)
Carol Lu (current graduate student at the Language, Cognition, and Development Lab at the University of Washington)
Rhys Gough
Grace Lee
Verónica Montané