Anders Hogstrom (2014)

Anders Hogstrom is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. He came from Howard Nusbaum's laboratory at the University of Chicago. He is interested in the interaction between language and broader cognitive processes, such as attention, in autism spectrum disorders. His MA thesis concerned the influence of top-down expectations on speech processing in ASD. A pianist, he is also part of a collaborative project with Ed Large, to study musical expertise in ASD.

Karla Rivera Figueroa (2016)

Karla Rivera Figueroa is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her PhD dissertation is about the larger implications of the cultural stigma surrounding individuals with autism spectrum disorders in Latinx and African-American communities.

Mackenzie Stabile (2017)

 Mackenzie Stabile is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include the interaction between cognitive processes such as cognitive control and language in autism spectrum disorders, learning, and mechanisms of change in individuals with optimal outcomes from autism spectrum disorders.

Elise Taverna (2018)

Elise Taverna is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests broadly include the cognitive and environmental factors underlying language and social outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorders, as well as mechanisms of optimal outcomes in ASD. Previously, she worked with Sophie Molholm at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, coordinating neuroimaging studies of sensory processing and cognition in autism spectrum disorders and other conditions.

Jason Crutcher (2018)

Jason Crutcher is a graduate student in clinical psychology. Before coming to UConn for graduate school, he worked with Dr. Alex Martin at NIMH researching how structural differences in the brain relate to abnormalities in language and social cognition for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. His research interests broadly include language dysfunction in developmental disorders such as ASD. He is particularly interested in neural mechanisms underlying pragmatic language abilities for people with optimal outcomes from ASD.

Hannah Thomas (2020)

Hannah Thomas is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include the neural mechanisms underlying language development in ASD as well as the neural and behavioral presentations of comorbidities in autism (e.g., anxiety, ADHD). Before joining UConn, Hannah worked with Dr. So Hyun "Sophy" Kim at Weill Cornell Medicine where she primarily worked on studies investigating predictors of school readiness in kindergarteners with autism and the neuronal and behavioral correlates of ASD and ADHD.