The LCB Lab at UNC
Principal Investigator
Peter C. Gordon, Ph.D.
Professor
Davie 361
pcg@email.unc.edu
My field is the psychology of language and my interests in language and the mind are very broad. Right now my basic research focuses on several topics related to word recognition and to higher levels of language comprehension. These include: the nature of the memory processes involved in understanding complex sentences, the interaction between lexical and higher levels of language processing, and the coordination of language processing with more general mechanisms of memory, perception, attention and motor control. Research on these topics in my laboratory uses two primary methods, eye-tracking during reading and measurement of event-related potentials (ERPs). In addition, I am working on fine-grained analyses of language ability in autistic individuals and their relatives.
Graduate Students
Fanting Kung
Davie 364A
fanting@live.unc.edu
Van Liceralde
Davie 364A
vliceral@live.unc.edu
I am broadly interested in how predictions of linguistic models and theories are modulated by differences in how people use and process language. In particular, my research concerns the interactive effects of individual difference factors (e.g., working memory, language experience) and linguistic constraints on language processes, from word recognition to sentence comprehension. I also intend to dabble on exploring these effects on figurative language sometime. For now, I’m developing a tool that assesses spoken language experience, which hopefully correlates with various measures of language processing.
Kayleigh Nemeth
Davie 346
kayjn@live.unc.edu
Giulia Pancani
Davie 304A
gpancani@unc.edu
My research goal is to further the understanding of neural and cognitive processes involved in language comprehension during reading. Specifically, I am interested in the mechanisms underlying the early stages of word recognition and lexical processing and how other aspects of cognition, such as memory and attention, can affect these early stages of comprehension. So far my research has relied on Event Related Potential (ERP) data in which experimental manipulations can produce changes in the amplitude and time frame of brainwave components time-locked to words.
Lab Manager
Caitlin Wood
ctwood@gmail.com
I graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2014 and plan to move on to graduate school in clinical or developmental psychology in the future. My past research involved studying the effects of teacher language on students’ development of deliberate memory strategies.
Research Assistants
Miles Hackett
Phanna Iamlek
Jihane Jadi
Virnaliz Jimenez
Ryan Lawton
Aziza Littlejohn
Anissa Neal
Alumni in Academics
Postdoctoral Fellows
Yi Ting Huan
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Hanjung Lee
Professor
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Integrated English Linguistics and Literature Specialist (IELL) Education Program
William Levine
Associate Professor
University of Arkansas
Department of Psychological Science
Graduate Students
Wonil Choi
Assistant Professor
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Renske Hoedemaker
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Marcus Johnson
SR Research
Home of EyeLink Eye Trackers and Experiment Builder Software
Kerry Ledoux
Research Associate
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Neurology: Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology
Yoonhyoung Lee
Professor
Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea
Department of Psychology
Matthew Lowder
Assistant Professor
University of Richmond
Department of Psychology
Mary Michael
Lecturer
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Department of Psychological Science
Chin Lung Yang
Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics
Post-Baccalaureates
Mariah Moore
Doctoral Student
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology
Lab Managers
Teon Brooks
Data Scientist
Mozilla
Kristine Chen
Program Supervisor
Juvo Autism and Behavioral Health Services
Nathan Dannemann
Principal Data Scientist
Data Machines
Laura deSouza
Associate Manager
Zitter Health Insights
Scott Hajek
Senior Data Scientist
Pivotal Software, Inc.
Rachael Jones
Doctoral Student
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology
Patrick Plummer
Research Associate
University of Pittsburgh
Learning Research and Development Center
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Adriane Boyd
Eberhard Karls University Tubingen
CoALLa Project (Computational Analysis of Learner Language)
Kanisha Coleman Brevard
Research Associate
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
School of Social Work
Michael Deigan
Doctoral Student
Yale University
Department of Philosophy
Trafton Drew
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Department of Psychology
Kathleen Currie Hall
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Department of Linguistics
Harry Halpin
Starting Researcher
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Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
Aaron Kaplan
Associate Professor
University of Utah
Department of Linguistics
Abby Shoun Kaplan
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
University of Utah
Department of Linguistics
Caitlin Murray
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Pain and Sleep Innovations Lab
Asher Rosinger
Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Biobehavioral Health
Department of Anthropology
Kenny Vaden
Research Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Department of Otolaryngology
Hearing Research Program
Collaborators: Past and Present
Randall Hendrick
Professor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department of Linguistics
Joseph Hopfinger
Professor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Molly Losh
Associate Professor
Northwestern University
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Tamara Swaab
Professor
University of California Davis
Center for Mind and Brain
Department of Psychology
Heather Harris Wright
Professor
Associate Dean for Research
East Carolina University
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders