Current Team
Graduate Students, Research Staff, Research Assistants
Phoebe Gaston
PhD Student
Phoebe followed a BA in Linguistics at Yale with a couple of years managing a neurolinguistics lab at NYU. She joined our team in 2015 and is our 5th UMD Flagship Fellow. Phoebe’s deep dive into how context affects word recognition has re-shaped our understanding of how we relate neurocognitive processes to diverse psycho- and neurolinguistic methods. Together with Hanna Muller she has also led important research into gender representation in linguistics publishing, and she spent a year as a student leader of the PULSAR program for undergraduate language scientists.

Hanna Muller
PhD Student
Hanna joined us in 2016 as a lab manager, following a BA in linguistics at NYU, with minors in computer science, mathematics, and Spanish. She had such a good time that she’s still with us for her PhD, where she is our 6th UMD Flagship Fellow. Her work on negative polarity item illusions has changed how we understand this phenomenon, and now she is broadening her reach to notorious cases of Moses Illusions, where she is combining skills from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. Together with Phoebe Gaston, Hanna has led an important research project on gender representation in linguistics publishing.

Masato Nakamura
PhD Student
Masato joined us after completing a BA in linguistics at the University of Tokyo, where he also did research at RIKEN. Masato’s past research used psycho- and neurolinguistic methods to understand prediction in language, and currently he is using computational modeling to understand how contexts are used to generate expectations about upcoming words.

Tess Wood
LSC Assistant Director

Shevaun Lewis
LSC Assistant Director

Caitlin Eaves
LSC Business Manager