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Masako HirotaniView profile

Associate Professor

• Psycholinguistics
• Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
• Syntax-Phonology and Semantics-Phonology Interfaces
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Dr. Masako Hirotani is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Carleton University, cross-appointed with the Department of Cognitive Science. She directs the Language and Brain Laboratory and is an adjunct associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience of language, and syntax-phonology interfaces. Key interests include adult sentence processing, auditory information use in language comprehension, and neural correlates of language processing, with recent work on dialectal impacts on education and conversational dynamics. Education: B.A. (Sophia University), M.A. (University of Tokyo), Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Former postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany). Research highlights include studies on dialectal disparities in academic achievement, neural synchronization in conversation, and acoustic properties of speech sounds. She actively contributes to Carleton’s Accessibility Institute and Visualization and Simulation (VSIM) Centre. Awards include the 2018 Favourite Faculty Member nomination and JSPS Invitation Fellowship (2017-2018). Teaching includes courses on psycholinguistics, child language, and cognitive neuroscience methods. Over 10 grants funded her work, including CUELF (2023-2024) and SSHRC grants. Her lab integrates EEG, fMRI, and behavioral methods to study language-brain interactions.

Janice NadlerView profile

Professor

• Law and Psychology
• Criminal Law
• Empirical Legal Research
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Janice Nadler serves as the Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. She maintains a significant joint appointment as Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, a premier institute for empirical legal studies. Her interdisciplinary work bridges legal theory with psychological science to examine human behavior within legal frameworks. Her educational foundation includes: BA from Cornell University JD from University of California, Berkeley PhD in Social Psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Nadler's research pioneers the intersection of law and psychology through empirical investigations of criminal responsibility judgments, negotiation processes, and food system risk perception. She examines how victim impact statements influence sentencing, how communication media affect dispute resolution, and how moral character assessments shape blame attribution. Current projects explore public responses to environmental and health risks in contemporary food production systems, extending her expertise into food law and policy. Her publication record (2013-2017) demonstrates consistent focus on law's expressive function, moral cognition in legal contexts, and social norm dynamics. Key contributions address criminal justice reform, behavioral compliance mechanisms, and the psychological underpinnings of legal decision-making, primarily appearing in top interdisciplinary journals and Oxford handbooks. No scientific awards are specified in the source material. The documentation indicates no formal student advisement listings or grant funding details, though her role as former Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs suggests significant institutional leadership. Professor Nadler's research activities are anchored through dual affiliations with Northwestern's Center for Legal Studies and the American Bar Foundation, leveraging these platforms for empirical legal scholarship.

• Sociolinguistics
• Finnish Swedish
• Multilingualism
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Saara Haapamäki is a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University, affiliated with the Department of Languages. Her research centers on Finnish Swedish, exploring its sociolinguistic, phonetic, and sociocultural dimensions. Her research interests include sociolinguistics , language variation , linguistic landscapes , language and class , and minority language learning in migration contexts . She investigates how language reflects and constructs social identity, particularly among Swedish-speaking Finns. Her work combines empirical analysis with theoretical insights from sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. The recent publications reveal a strong focus on phonetic variation , language attitudes , and multilingualism , with an increasing emphasis on historical and spatial dimensions of language use, such as linguistic landscapes in Turku. Her collaborative work with scholars like Wikner and Bäckman highlights interdisciplinary engagement. Scientific Awards: No scientific awards are listed in the provided text. However, her consistent scholarly output in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters with publishers like Routledge indicates recognition in the academic community. She has supervised at least one doctoral thesis, as indicated by the entry 'Supervised work (1)'. While no explicit grants are mentioned, her research output suggests involvement in funded projects related to multilingualism, migration, and minority languages. Collaboration with researchers across institutions points to active participation in academic networks. Saara Haapamäki is part of a research environment focused on minority languages and sociolinguistic variation at Åbo Akademi University. Her work contributes to broader teams studying linguistic identity in Finland and Europe, particularly within Swedish-speaking communities.

• Speech Sciences
• Voice Studies
• Acoustic Phonetics
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Dr. Nassima Abdelli-Beruh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Long Island University's College of Health Professions. She joined LIU POST in 2006 after serving as an assistant professor at NYU for four years. D.E.U.G., University of Paris X - France M.A., University of Paris X - France Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY Her research focuses on gender differences in vocal fry , speech production of voicing contrasts in Parisian French , and acoustic underpinnings of regressive voicing assimilation in French stops . She has developed multiple research tracks including: Production of voicing contrasts in French Acoustic analysis of voicing assimilation Prevalence and perception of vocal fry in American English Comparison of speech production patterns across languages Her work, particularly on vocal fry patterns in American English speakers, has attracted international media attention. Collaborations include researchers like Thomas Drugman, Robert H. Red Owl, Lisa Wolk, and David Slavin.

Raquel Garrido AlhamaView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computational modelling of language learning
• Language acquisition
• Language evolution
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Dr Raquel Garrido Alhama is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence for text and human interaction at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) , University of Amsterdam. She also co-directs the /k/omputation and Language Lab and previously served as Assistant Professor at the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence department of Tilburg University. She earned her PhD from the ILLC under the supervision of Jelle Zuidema, Remko Scha and Carel Ten Cate, with a dissertation entitled Computational Modelling of Artificial Language Learning . Prior post-doctoral positions include the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language. Research Interests: Computational modelling of language learning and evolution Language acquisition, word learning and sentence processing Neural-symbolic integration and connectionist architectures Visual and auditory word recognition, syntactic parsing and part-of-speech tagging In recent years her work has converged on validating developmental milestones—such as the onset of productive determiner–noun combinations—using large-scale child corpora and neural models. She also investigates how multi-agent referential games can lead to emergent compositional languages, moving from image to richer graph representations. Scientific Awards: Best Article Award (2019) from Psychonomic Bulletin & Review for the review on computational models of rule learning Best Poster Award (2015) at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Teaching & Supervision: Dr Alhama has designed and lectured courses on advanced programming for cognitive science, computational linguistics, linear algebra and language acquisition at Tilburg University, University of Amsterdam, Radboud University and the University of the Basque Country. She currently supervises eleven MSc and BSc students in AI, Logic and Cognitive Science. Labs & Teams: She is the founding co-director of the /k/omputation and Language Lab together with Phong Le, where they use Language Emergence frameworks to explore the cognitive prerequisites for displacement and compositionality in human language.

• Linguistics
• German Studies
• Phonetics
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Frank Janle serves as a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics/German Studies (ILG) within the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His office is located in room 1.038 at Keplerstrasse 17, 70174 Stuttgart, with consultation hours available by appointment. His research spans core linguistic domains with emphasis on German language structures. Key focus areas include: Phonetics: Analysis of speech sound production and perception Syntax: Sentence structure and grammatical relationships Semantics: Meaning construction in language Historical Linguistics: Evolution of Germanic languages This work contributes to theoretical frameworks in language science with specific applications to Germanic philology.

• Computational Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Bilingualism
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Yevgen Matusevych is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and the Computational Linguistics department. His work bridges theoretical and applied research in natural language processing, bilingualism, and speech modeling. Research Interests: Primary focus on computational linguistics, with emphasis on bilingual sentence processing, phonetic learning, and cognitive plausibility in language models. Publications: Active in peer-reviewed research since 2013, recent work explores bilingual language models, mutual exclusivity bias in speech models, and phonetic learning as perceptual space modeling. Collaborations: Extensive external collaborations in computational linguistics, particularly in multimodal learning and cross-linguistic studies. Key Trends: His articles highlight the intersection of natural language processing, bilingualism, and cognitive science, with sub-fields spanning speech recognition, neural architectures, and psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition.

Peter HaninkView profile

Assistant Professor

• Race and Policing
• Police Use of Force
• Police Reform
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Dr. Peter Hanink is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona’s College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. He specializes in race and policing, focusing on police-public interactions, racialized police violence, and the societal implications of these dynamics. His research examines how police reform efforts are shaped by political, economic, and cultural contexts, and he has provided expert testimony to the California State Assembly. Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine M.P.A. from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service J.D. from Brooklyn Law School B.A. in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University Hanink’s research integrates criminology, sociology, and legal studies to analyze systemic issues in policing. His work explores the historical roots of racialized policing, contemporary reform challenges, and experimental studies on how race influences perceptions of criminality and dangerousness. He also investigates policy effectiveness in reducing excessive force and improving community-police relations. Recent publications analyze police use-of-force policies, public responses to reform messaging, and the intersection of race with prosecutorial discretion. His media appearances and opinion writing address urgent topics like police transparency, the George Floyd killing, and the militarization of law enforcement. Hanink is co-founder of the Criminology Media Lab and serves as Vice-Chair of CPP’s Academic Senate. Special Projects for Improving the Classroom Experience (SPICE) Grant - $21,012 (2023) Research Scholarship Creative Activities Grant - $5,000 (2022) Curriculum Redesign Grant - $8,000 (2019) Summer Research Grants - $15,100 (2013-2018) Dissertation Writing Fellowship - $12,614 (2017) Hanink mentors students in research projects analyzing police use-of-force policies, historical racial violence, and experimental studies on bias. He teaches courses in criminology, research methods, and policing, and serves as a Pre-Law Advisor. His advocacy includes public commentary on police accountability, virtual education challenges, and critical race theory in criminal justice systems.

Rory DepaolisView profile

Professor

• Infant Language Development
• Speech and Hearing Science
• Language Acquisition
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Rory Depaolis is a faculty member at James Madison University, affiliated with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. He directs the Ph.D. program in his field and leads the Infant and Toddler Language Laboratory, focusing on language development during the first year of life. His research bridges infant vocalization, speech processing, and clinical interventions for populations with historically delayed language outcomes. Fields of Interest: Infant Language Development, Speech and Hearing Science, Phonological Development, Child Development, Developmental Psychology His work spans empirical studies on babbling contingency, speech segmentation, and the role of production in language acquisition, with recent efforts on app-based tools like BabblePlay to enhance early language outcomes. While no specific awards or grants are detailed in the provided text, his 20-year expertise in family-based research underscores practical applications in mitigating language disparities.

Naci MocanView profile

Professor

• Labor Economics
• Health Economics
• Economics of Crime
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Naci Mocan serves as Professor and Ourso Distinguished Chair in Economics at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business. He maintains significant external affiliations as a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), while contributing to academic discourse through editorial board membership for the Journal of Labor Research. His educational foundation includes a PhD in Economics from the City University of New York (1989) and a BA in Economics from Bogazici University (1984). This training enabled his distinctive interdisciplinary approach spanning multiple economic subfields. Professor Mocan's research program integrates Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Cultural Economics with groundbreaking work in Law and Economics. His investigations into judicial bias mechanisms—examining racial preferences in court decisions and using NBA referees as experimental analogs—demonstrate innovative methodology. Parallel streams explore refugee-crime dynamics, political economy of deterrence, and cultural determinants of economic prosperity, with his forthcoming MIT Press book representing a major theoretical contribution. This work consistently bridges micro-level behavioral insights with macro-level policy implications. His publication trajectory shows sustained productivity in top journals, with 2023-2025 output focusing on cultural economics foundations and judicial behavior. The concentration of recent work in Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Review of Economics and Statistics underscores disciplinary influence. His primary recognition is the prestigious Ourso Distinguished Chair at LSU, reflecting institutional esteem for his scholarly impact. External validation comes through continued NBER and IZA appointments, which represent selective recognition within the economics profession. As an active committee member in LSU's business college governance and editorial contributor to field-specific journals, Professor Mocan shapes academic discourse beyond his publications. His media engagements with NPR and The Economist demonstrate public impact, particularly regarding cultural influences on economic outcomes. Though not leading a named laboratory, his research operates through departmental infrastructure at LSU combined with NBER/IZA networks. This collaborative model facilitates international data access and methodological exchange, particularly evident in cross-national studies of prejudice and crime dynamics.

• acoustics
• psychoacoustics
• auditory perception
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Andrzej Jerzy Wicher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Acoustics within the Faculty of Physics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, where he has been affiliated since 1990. He maintains additional affiliations with the Committee on Acoustics at the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2020) and collaborates internationally with the Auditory Perception Group at the University of Cambridge's Department of Experimental Psychology. His professional activities include membership in the Polish Acoustical Society and service with the European Acoustics Association. Wicher specializes in psychoacoustics, auditory perception, speech intelligibility, and hearing disorders, with particular expertise in otoacoustic emissions, auditory evoked potentials, and tinnitus research. His work bridges fundamental auditory science with practical applications in hearing protection, noise assessment, and clinical audiology. Recent research has expanded into cognitive neuroscience approaches to studying environmental noise effects. His publication record shows consistent productivity with research spanning wind turbine noise effects on cognition, speech masking techniques, musical acoustics, and the physiological mechanisms of hearing. The work demonstrates interdisciplinary collaboration across physics, psychology, neuroscience, and clinical fields, reflecting the integrative nature of modern auditory research. As an educator, Wicher has over twenty years of experience teaching psychoacoustics, objective hearing research methods, and audiology, and has supervised more than twenty master's theses. Administratively, he served as deputy director of the Institute of Acoustics and has been a permanent member of the Faculty Board at the Faculty of Physics since 2016. His research has been supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, including a 2010-2013 project on otoacoustic emissions under contralateral stimulation conditions. His work demonstrates strong international collaboration, particularly with researchers at the University of Cambridge, and contributes significantly to both theoretical understanding and practical applications in auditory science.

• Bilingualism
• Psycholinguistics
• Language Control Mechanisms
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Prof. Zofia Wodniecka-Chlipalska is a distinguished faculty member at Jagiellonian University's Institute of Psychology within the Faculty of Philosophy. Her research spans bilingualism, cognitive neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, focusing on language control mechanisms and cross-linguistic influences. She leads the Laboratory of Language Psychology and Bilingualism 'LangUsta', overseeing critical studies on bilingual children's language processing and neural adaptations. Key Research Areas: Bilingual language control, social biases in multilingual contexts, lexical access, neuropsychological mechanisms of second language acquisition. Recent Trends: 2025 articles explore neural efficiency in bilingual environments, vocabulary dynamics in Polish-English children, and motivation-driven prejudice reduction.

Josefa Dorta LuisView profile

Professor

• Applied Linguistics
• Prosody
• Phonetics
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Josefa Dorta Luis is a Full Professor of General Linguistics at the Department of Spanish Philology in the School of Arts at the University of La Laguna (ULL). She is the founder and director of the Phonetics Laboratory at ULL (SEGAI ULL) and leads the research group PROFONDIS (Grupo de prosodia, fonética y discurso lingüístico-literario). University: University of La Laguna School: School of Arts Department: Department of Spanish Philology Academic Position: Full Professor Dr. Dorta Luis earned her PhD from the University of La Laguna in 1987 with the thesis "Modos y tiempos del verbo en la tradición gramatical hispánica desde Nebrija hasta Bello (1492-1860)". Her dissertation received a class award as outstanding research. She holds a Degree in Philosophy and Arts with a specialization in Spanish Philology, for which she was awarded the "Agustín de Bethencourt" prize by the Autonomous Government. Her primary research interests include applied linguistics, prosody, phonetics and phonology, grammatical historiography, discourse analysis, and forensic phonetics. She has led significant research projects including "Entonación interrogativa y declarativa del español de Canarias y su relación con la de Cuba y Venezuela" (FFI2010-16993) and "Estudio comparativo de la entonación y del acento en zonas fronterizas del español" (FFI2014-52716-P). Her research has resulted in approximately 150 publications, including 17 books, book chapters, and numerous articles in high-impact journals. Dr. Dorta Luis has attended around 70 national and international congresses across countries including Denmark, Mexico, Germany, and France. She has served as a visiting professor at prestigious institutions such as the University of Copenhagen, University of Texas-San Antonio, University of Barcelona, University of Salamanca, and Technická Univerzita V Liberci (Prague). Agustín de Bethencourt prize by the Autonomous Government Five periods of six year research recognition Extraordinary Arts and Humanities award for doctoral theses supervision Dr. Dorta Luis has supervised four doctoral theses, three of which received international mention and the extraordinary Arts and Humanities award. She has extensive experience in research management, having organized numerous specialty courses and congresses, and led research projects and scientific infrastructure development, particularly for the Phonetics Laboratory at ULL. She serves on the scientific committees of various journals and acts as a reviewer for prestigious publications including the Journal of Pragmatics, EFE, RESLA, and others.

• Cognitive Psychology
• Computational Psychology
• Linguistics
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Gabriella Vigliocco is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at University College London, where she conducts research at the intersection of cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience. Her work focuses on psychological and neural mechanisms of human language use, with particular emphasis on how conceptual and linguistic information are integrated. Her educational background includes: Doctor of Philosophy from Universita degli Studi di Trieste (1995) Bachelor of Science from Universita degli Studi di Trieste (1990) Vigliocco's research spans cognitive and computational psychology, linguistics, neurosciences, applied and developmental psychology, biological psychology, and social and personality psychology. Her laboratory has made significant contributions including development of a theoretical framework for sentence production and explicit computational models of lexical semantic representation informed by cognitive science and neuroscience. Current research projects address the relationship between language and thought in spoken and signed languages, and the representation of abstract knowledge. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on multimodal language processing, ecological approaches to cognition, and the integration of linguistic and conceptual information. Her work frequently examines how gesture and speech interact in communication, with particular attention to developmental contexts and language disorders. The research demonstrates interdisciplinary collaboration across psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and computational modeling. Vigliocco leads the Doctoral Programme for the Ecological Study of the Brain at UCL since October 2018, mentoring the next generation of researchers in this emerging field. Her laboratory maintains active research in language processing, conceptual representation, and multimodal communication, with numerous publications spanning top journals in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.

• Speech Prosody
• Phonetics
• Linguistics
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Dr Hae-Sung Jeon is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire's School of Psychology and Humanities. Her academic profile demonstrates a strong commitment to research in speech communication with particular expertise in speech prosody—the melody, timing, and tonal qualities of voice—as well as phonetic variation in multimodal communication. Dr Jeon's research interests center on linguistic prosody, phonetic variation, and speech perception, with a special focus on Korean language varieties. Her work examines how pitch, timing, and intonation patterns function in communication across different languages and contexts. She has made significant contributions to understanding speech rhythm, intonation patterns in Korean dialects, and cross-linguistic prosodic perception. Analysis of her publication record reveals a consistent research trajectory focused on speech prosody with increasing emphasis on Korean language varieties. Her recent work shows growing international collaboration, particularly with researchers in phonetics and linguistics across Europe. The publications demonstrate methodological diversity, incorporating experimental approaches, corpus analysis, and cross-linguistic comparisons to investigate fundamental questions about speech perception and production. Dr Jeon has published extensively in high-impact journals including Speech Communication, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Laboratory Phonology. Her research bridges cognitive psychology, linguistics, and phonetics, contributing to our understanding of how humans process speech across different languages and contexts.