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Poeppel Lab

Cognitive neuroscience research on auditory cognition, speech perception, and language comprehension.

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  • Emma Laurent, PhD candidate, Harvard University
  • Henry Valk, RA until December 2019
  • Jean-Rémi King, post-doctoral researcher
  • Gwyneth Lewis, post-doctoral researcher, The University of Memphis
  • Anna Kasdan, doctoral student, working in Music Cognition Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with Reyna Gordon
  • Jess Rowland Art Fellow 2018-2020, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
  • Adeen Flinker, Assistant Professor of Neurology, NYU Medical Center
  • Xiangbin Teng, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
  • Nai Ding, Assistant Professor, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University
  • Luc Arnal, postdoctoral fellow, University of Geneva · Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (NEUFO)
  • Xing Tian, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, NYU Shanghai
  • Elana Zion-Golumbic, Assistant Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Jean Zarate, currently Assistant Editor at Nature Neuroscience
  • Diana Omigie (Visiting Scholar 2012; currently a post-doc at University Lille/Paris
  • Johanna Rimmele (postdoc 2011-2012; currently a postdoc at the University of Hamburg)
  • Kevin Woods (B.A. 2012; currently a PhD student at the Harvard-MIT Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program)
  • Gregory Cogan (PhD 2011; currently a postdoc at NYU in the Pesaran Lab)
  • Tobias Overath (postdoc 2009-2011; currently a postdoc at UCL Ear Institute).
  • Mary Howard (postdoc; currently Research Scientist at UMD).
  • So-One Hwang, UMD PhD (Bill Idsardi & David Poeppel, advisors); post-doc at UCSD.
  • Ariane Rhone, UMD PhD (David Poeppel & Bill Idsardi, advisors); post-doc at University of Iowa.
  • Julian Jenkins III, PhD 2011 at UMD (David Poeppel, Bill Idsardi & Jonathan Simon, advisors); post-doc at UPenn Medical Center.
  • Nuria Abdulsabur, current UMD/NIH student (Al Braun, advisor).
  • Diogo Almeida, (Ph.D. 2009, postdoc University of California, Irvine, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University) now a Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.
  • Philip Monahan, (Ph.D. 2009, postdoc San Sebastian, Basque Center for Brain, Language and Cognition, Spain)
  • Susannah Hoffman, (RA till summer 2008). Susannah graduated from the American Repertory Theater (ART) at Harvard, studying acting.
  • Huan Luo, (Ph.D. 2006, now in Beijing, Research Scientist, CAS). Huan used MEG and computational modeling to study how human auditory cortex encodes complex sounds.
  • Anna Salajegheh, (RA till 2006). Anna went to medical school at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City. She is now a resident in psychiatry at Cornell Medical Center in New York.
  • Rob Fiorentino, (Ph.D. 2006, now Associate Professor, Univ. Kansas). Lexical structure, lexical representation, neurolinguistics.
  • Minna Lehtonen, (post-doc at University of Helsinki).
  • Maria Chait, (Ph.D. 2006; as of 2007, Senior Lecturer at Univ College London, Ear Institute). Auditory cognition, speech perception, auditory cortex physiology.
  • Yadong Wang, (postdoc 2003-2006; now DSP Algorithm Engineer at Ditech Communications, Mountain View CA)
  • Anita Bowles, (postdoc 2003-2006; now research scientist at Center for the Advanced Study of Language)
  • Virginie Van Wassenhove, (Ph.D. 2004, postdoc at UCSF, Caltech). Multi-sensory perception, audio-visual speech, neurophysiology. Now Director of the MEG lab at NeuroSpin in Paris.
  • Lisa Sanders, (postdoc; now Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst).
  • Martin Hackl, (postdoc; formerly Asst. Professor at Pomona College, now Associate Professor at MIT)
  • Silvia Gennari, (postdoc; now Lecturer at York University UK).
  • Kala Lakshminarayanan, (Ph.D. student 1999-2002, Ph.D. at Rutgers with Paul Tallal, 2007, now a consultant in the medical publishing industry).
  • Ana Gouvea, (Ph.D. 2002, now faculty at Florida International University in Miami).
  • Jeremy Bronheim, consultant in Washington DC.
  • Anthony Boemio, (Ph.D. 2002, postdoc at NIMH in Peter Bandettini’s group). He now works for a part of the government that cannot be known or named.
  • Mike Gordon, post-doc
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