Lab Members
Personnel
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Dr. Karen Emmorey
Dr. Karen Emmorey is a Professor in the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University and Director of the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience. full bio
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Cindy Batch
Cindy O'Grady Batch is a native signer and has been involved in sign language research for over 15 years. She is currently a Research Assistant at LLCN. She also works at the Salk Institute conducting research on Deaf individuals who have had a stroke. In addition she consults with graduate students on linguistics, translating and interpreting tasks. Her interests include running, cycling, traveling, cooking and reading. She looks forward to meeting you when you visit the lab.
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Dr. Shannon Casey
Shannon Casey received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego and is a part-time lecturer in the Human Development Program there. Casey's research focuses on relationships among gestures, signed languages, and spoken languages, particularly through analyses of gestural productions by hearing non-signers, hearing native ASL signers, hearing novice signers, and deaf children acquiring ASL as a native language. In this vein, she has studied the possible gestural origins of verb agreement morphology in signed languages and the influence of ASL acquisition on co-speech gesture.
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Dr. Marcel Giezen
Marcel Giezen received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His dissertation research focused on speech and sign perception in deaf children with cochlear implants. As part of his dissertation work, Marcel spent four months at the LLCN in 2009 with a Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant. Currently, he is a research fellow at the LLCN with a two-year grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to study cross-language competition in bimodal bilinguals.
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Dr. Stephen McCullough
Stephen McCullough is a Research Scientist in LLCN. He uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural systems that underlie sign language and the cognitive systems that support sign language processing (e.g., face recognition, motion perception).
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Dr. Jennifer Petrich
Jennifer Petrich received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2004. Dr. Petrich's previous research focused on visual motion processing and attentional processing differences between normal and dyslexia readers and between deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Currently, Dr. Petrich's interests lie in studying the neural mechanisms that underlie language and motion processing in deaf signers.
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Dr. Jill Weisberg
Jill Weisberg received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Georgetown
University, where she used functional brain imaging to examine
spatial processing and object recognition in deaf and hearing
populations. Since 1993, she has also been a member of the
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH, focusing on various
aspects of learning and memory. Those studies explored how
concepts are represented in the brain (e.g. objects concepts,
social interaction) using functional brain imaging. Prior to that,
Jill completed a B.A in French and an M.A. in Experimental
Neuropsychology at George Mason University.
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Students and Volunteers
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Hannah Bowley
I am currently a sophomore in the undergraduate Speech, Language, Hearing Science program at SDSU. I began learning about Deaf Culture last semester in Mrs. Emmorey's class, which sparked my interest to learn ASL. My objective is to one day be a Speech Therapist in an Elementary school district.
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Nicole Denny
I am currently a Junior in the Speech, Language and Hearing sciences program at San Diego State University. While enrolled in my first ASL course at Santa Barbara City College I became very interested in not only the Deaf culture but also ASL. I became an active member of the ASL club at SBCC and quickly immersed myself in the Deaf community. I am now a member of the SDSU ASL club and have continually enjoyed to learn about Deaf culture and sign languages. I am excited to begin working in the LLCN and hope to apply the knowledge and skills that I learn there to my future career.
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Devin Peterson
I am currently a senior in the Undergraduate Psychology program at San Diego State University. I originally became interested in American Sign Language when I took a class at Grossmont College, and ended up loving it so much I earned my associates degree in ASL. After graduating in May 2012, I am going on a backpacking trip through Europe and then will be taking a year off to work and plan for graduate school. In my time in the LLCN, I have worked with many intelligent and great people and the experience has broadened my knowledge in ASL and research.
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Kristen Secora
Kristen Secora is a PhD student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in
Language and Communicative Disorders. She received her B.S. in
Neuroscience from Texas Christian University. She is studying motion
processing in sign languages within the framework of embodied cognition.
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Jonathan Udoff
Jonathan Udoff is a PhD student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in
Language and Communicative Disorders. He received his BA in Cognitive
Science and Hispanic Studies from Brown University in 2007. At Brown,
Jonathan became involved in ASL classes and the ASL club, leading him to
spearhead Brown's "Save ASL" campaign in the spring of 2005. Jonathan's
research focuses on the psycholinguistics of sign languages and of
bilingualism. He is particularly interested in how bimodal bilingualism
differs from mono-modal bilingualism. In addition to ASL, Jonathan speaks
Spanish and Catalan.
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Jordan Weber
Jordan Weber is a sophomore at San Diego State University. She is pursuing a degree in Speech and Language Pathology. She co-founded the ASL club with Isidore Niyongabo and is currently the treasurer. Also, she is a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She is very excited to begin working in the lab and start researching. She, also, is very passionate about this field of work and cannot wait to start her career.
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Previous Lab Members
Cristina Baus
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Rachel Colvin
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Christiana David
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Tanya Denmark
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Jordan Fenlon
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Melissa Herzig
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Adam Jarashow
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Franco Korpics
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Clifton Langdon-Grigg
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Heather Larrabee
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Mandy Lenham
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Elisabeth Lottman
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Danielle Lucien-Thompsen
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Isidore Niyongabo
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Erica Tara Lily Parker
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Dr. Josep Quer
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Erin Spurgeon
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Adam Stone
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last udated: 3/14/2012
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