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Inge-Marie
Eigsti
Lab Director |
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| Jillian Schuh (2005) jillian.degroot (at) uconn.edu |
Jillian
Schuh is a fourth year graduate student in Clinical Psychology program.
My research focuses on the ways in which children from unique
populations acquire and learn language. In particular, I am interested
in how internationally adopted children learn their new language, and
what factors contribute to the individual variations so markedly noted
throughout their development. My masters project explored this through
the use of narratives, or story telling, in an attempt to obtain a
naturalistic language sample in which difference amongst early and late
adopted children and non-adopted children could be examined. An additional focus of my research examines children on the Autism Spectrum and their limitations that so often hinder their abiIity to successfully communicate with others. I am interested in how prosody, or the sing-song quality of a person's voice, is both comprehended and produced in children with autism. Our lab is exploring this through behavioral and fMRI paradigms. Additionally, I am interested in how other factors, such as executive functioning, influence social communications. |
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| Shin-Yi Fang (2006) shin.yi.fang (at) uconn.edu Primary Advisor: Jim Magnuson |
My research interest focuses on reading and reading disability. In order to get a more comprehensive picture, I study these topics through a combination of different technologies, such fMRI, ERP, eye-tracker, and mouse-tracker. |  |
| Ashley
de Marchena (2006) ashley.de_marchena (at) uconn.edu |
Ashley de Marchena is a graduate student in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. Her primary interests are language, learning, and gesture, and how these distinct capacities are related to brain development. Ashley hopes that her research will contribute to our understanding of communication in autism spectrum disorders to improve interventions and educational programs for these individuals. |  |
| Jessica Bean (2007) jessica.bean (at) uconn.edu |
Jessica Bean is a second year student. My research focuses on the development of joint attention in children with autism spectruim disorders, and its influence as children age into adolescence. |  |
| Molly Helt (2005) molly.helt (at) uconn.edu Primary advisor: Deb Fein |
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| Jessica Mayo (2008) jessica.mayo (at) uconn.edu |
I am a graduate student in the Department of Clinical Psychology. My research interests include the development of language especially in children who have autism. |  |
| Undergraduate Lab
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| Katie
Dombrowski |
I am an honors student studying psychology at the University of Connecticut. In the DCN lab, my research involvement focuses on the gestures of children with autism. I plan on completing an honors thesis in Dr. Eigsti's lab and applying to clinical psychology graduate programs during my senior year. |  |
| Danielle Loughrey | I am a junior undergraduate psychology major. I am interested in developmental and social psychology and specifically working with children. |  |
| Jose Casares | ||
| Channda Som | ||
| Juliana Hartley | ||
| Danielle Tropsa | ||
| Undergraduate Lab Alumnae | ||
| 2008-9 | Justine
Marsh, Katie Dombrowski, Jose Casares, Danielle Loughrey, Ashley
Lepack, Liz Tzatkin, Terry Gustafson, Lauren Long |
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| 2007-8 |
Justin
Marsh, Jessica St. Pierre, David Roy, David Morrow, Heather Washburn,
Kim Markoff, Kim Hayhurst, Stefanie Riegler |
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| 2006-7 | Kayla
Marot, Mark Rogalski, Melissa Martinez, Corey Alexa, Heather Washburn,
Tuhina Joseph |
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| 2005-6 | Lauren
Czepizak, Cara Orazietti, Judith Shulman, Stephanie Ceniccola |
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| 2004-5 | Nojan
Bakhtiari, Lisa Cataudella, Jessica Bennett, Kelly Chang |
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| Directions to the lab | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |