Fifteen faculty members participated in the 2017 RISE program, representing a wide range of research expertise. Most participating faculty are affiliated with the Cognitive Science Program and the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. We anticipate that most all will continue to participate for the 2018 cycle, in addition to a few new participating laboratories.

Faculty	Department	Research interests	Website
Dr. Gerry Altmann	PSYC	adult language processing, influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, interface between language and vision	http://altmann.lab.uconn.edu
Dr. Carl Coelho	SLHS	aphasia rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury, language functions of the prefrontal cortex, fMRI, behavior	http://chip.uconn.edu/person/carl-coelho-phd/
Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti	PSYC	language acquisition and brain development, neurocognitive processes, atypical development, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), structural and functional imaging, eye-tracking	http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu
Dr. R. Holly Fitch	PSYC	animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition, models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability	http://www.fitchlab.com
Dr. Lendra Friesen	SLHS	cochlear implants, speech perception, electrophysiology, aging
Dr. Edward Large	PSYC	nonlinear dynamical systems, auditory neuroscience, music psychology	http://musicdynamicslab.uconn.edu
Dr. James Magnuson	PSYC	neurobiology of language, language plasticity, speech perception, spoken word recognition, sentence processing, language development, developmental and acquired disorders of language, computational models	http://magnuson.psy.uconn.edu
Dr. Jennifer Mozeiko	SLHS	aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging	http://aphasia-rehab.slhs.uconn.edu
Dr. Emily Myers	SLHS	cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, speech perception, neural/behavioral mechanisms involved in mapping speech signals onto meaning, brain response to acoustic variation, parsing of speech stream into meaningful categories, acquired language disorders (aphasia), developmental language disorders (reading disorder, language impairment)	http://myerslab.uconn.edu
Dr. Letitia Naigles	PSYC	environmental and biological language acquisition, intermodal preferential looking (IPL), language comprehension, language processing and neural structure and function	http://cll.uconn.edu
Dr. Tammie Spaulding	SLHS	cognitive mechanisms in children with specific language impairment, assessment of child language disorders
Dr. Erika Skoe	SLHS	plasticity of the auditory system, auditory evoked potentials, auditory neurophysiology, the auditory system’s encoding of complex/naturalistic sounds, environmental enrichment/impoverishment affects on the encoding process, the fidelity of sound’s encoding affects on language development and cognitive flexibility	http://skoe.slhs.uconn.edu
Dr. William Snyder	LING	semantic memory, the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition and language processing, multimodal integration, aphasia and other cognitive deficits, neural basis of language	http://web.uconn.edu/snyder/
Dr. Rachel Theodore	SLHS	perceptual learning, speech perception, phonetic variability, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition, speech production	http://slaplab.uconn.edu
Dr. Eiling Yee	PSYC	conceptual processing, semantic memory, language comprehension, the neural representation of concepts, spoken word recognition and language processing, multimodal integration, aphasia and other cognitive deficits, neural basis of language	http://yeelab.uconn.edu