Hats off to Lama Mrayati for creating this lovely Language and Brain cake for Iman's graduation party. Check out the little brain and ear fondant icing. They're exquisite. So impressive!
summer interns in the hizzle
Our summer internship program starts tomorrow. First up for these intrepid scholars, a project on profanity using pupillometry. The lab is branching out into dark and terrible places. I can't wait!
Language and brain cake....
Here's a lovely gesture from one of my terrific former undergraduate students, Iman Salam, from Language and Brain last year. She decorated a graduation cake with her favorite course title! Congratulations and good luck in your next steps, Iman!
Jameer Hart wins Temple CSD's research award for 2016
Congratulations to Jameer! Here I am smashing cake into his face...
Sameer Ashaie is now a doctor....
But don't let this doctor take your temperature even if he insists.... Dr. Ashaie successfully defended his thesis at CUNY last week. He is now on the market for a postdoc. Hire this scholar!
All hail the conquering graduates
Congratulations to all of our 2016 graduating seniors:
Carli Bailey, Maureen Murphy, and Jameer Hart.
We will miss you!
Allie Kelly -- accepted to Stanford's summer cognitive science program
All hail the conquering MCC lab undergraduates! Allie Kelly was one of 13 students accepted from a pool of 374 to attend Stanford University's summer cognitive science institute. She's off to California. Will she bring the Brompton folding bicycle? -- Unclear at this time.
Bonnie Zuckerman -- full scholarship to the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Our wunderkind, Bonnie Zuckerman, has been accepted with a full scholarship to the MS program in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain. Congratulations to Bonnie on this awesome accomplishment!
Article on the lab in Temple News
Check out the article here:
Years of toil.... 2 recently accepted manuscripts
These two manuscripts nearly killed me, but I am pleased to report they are both "in press" at the journal, Cognitive Science..... Be on the lookout for:
1. Reilly J, *Hung J, & Westbury C (in press). From word form to word meaning: Listener sensitivity to formal markers of word concreteness across seven natural languages. Cognitive Science.
2. Primativo S, Reilly J, & Crutch SJ (in press). Abstract conceptual feature ratings predict gaze within written word arrays: evidence from a visual wor(l)d paradigm. Cognitive Science.
Victoria Diedrichs successfully defends her MA thesis
And so it is done.... Congratulations to our scholar, Victoria, on her successful thesis defense:
Leveraging Pupillometry and Luminance-Based Mental Imagery for a Novel Mode of Communication
Dr. Jinyi Hung has joined the elite ranks of PhD-hood
Dr. Hung has successfully defended her thesis. The only noteworthy change is that someone wrote Dr. next to her picture in the lab.
Congratulations Jinyi!
Google Analytics visits to our lab: Lots of fans of cognition and language
Associate professor in the hizzle
Years of seemingly endless toil have come to an end. Jamie Reilly is now a tenured associate professor. He can give up the elaborate ruse and sit back on easy street for the rest of his natural born life -- bwaah ha ha!
Hail to the graduates: Our lab undergraduate seniors boast 100% acceptance to graduate school
Congratulations to our graduating UG lab volunteers. All 3 were accepted to graduate school for speech-language pathology. Charlie Yohe and Jule Long will be attending Temple University. Brianna McGrody is on her way to Towson University.
This was no easy feat. Temple had 470 applications this year for 30 spots. We're so proud of these young bucks!
Our semantic memory position paper accepted at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Be on the Look out for this mother!
Reilly J, Peelle JE, Garcia A, & Crutch SJ (2015, in press). Linking somatic and symbolic representation in semantic memory: The Dynamic Multilevel Reactivation Framework. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Dr. Joshua Troche is off the market....
The job market that is... Congratulations to our former PhD phenom, Dr. Joshua Troche. Josh just accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at the University of Central Florida (UCF)!
Sir Richard Binney strikes again
Rumor has it this Neuropsychologia paper is so awesome that it has already earned Dr. Binney a knightship.
(Dr.) Joshua Troche successfully defends his thesis!
I'm so proud to report that our senior doctoral student, Joshua Troche, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Florida today. Dr. Troche examined the scaling and clustering properties of 750 English nouns using a combination of cognitive modeling and eyetracking. Way to go, Josh!
FIRST AND POSSIBLY LAST MEMBER OF THE LAB TO EVER ACHIEVE GREATNESS
Kali Woodruff Carr (below right), my former undergraduate honors thesis phenom now with Nina Kraus at Northwestern, just published an article in PNAS on beat perception and later language abilities in kids. See recent stories in Science Magazine and Scientific American. If you have courage, read her PNAS article. Wow!
