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Lab Alumni

Here are some of our former lab members. They've moved on to better things, but we're proud they got their start here with us!

Graduate students and Postdocs

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Kathy Maxwell, M.Sc.

Kathy studied reading development in Deaf sign language users.

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Amy Desroches, Ph.D.

Studying auditory word recognition and phonetic processing in language and reading disorders using eye-tracking; Reading development, speech perception and phonological awareness in school-age children. Currently a postdoc at Northwestern University, using fMRI to study reading development in children.
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Aneta Kielar, Ph.D

Aneta' research examined representations of inflectional and derivational morphology using priming and ERP techniques as well as fMRI. She also studied individual differences in working memory and sentence comprehension. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, studying fMRI and aphasia.
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Allison Andres

Allison completed her Masters degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2008. She was co-supervised by Dr. Janis Cardy in CSD, and Dr. Joanisse in Psychology. Her research examines audio-visual integration of speech sounds using ERPs.

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Randy Newman, Ph.D.

Randy received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Dalhousie University. She utilizes event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain mechanisms underlying reading and speech perception. While at Western she was studying the activation of phonological representations during both visual and spoken word recognition. Randy is currently an Assistant Professor at Acadia University.
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Erin Robertson, Ph.D.

Erin received her Ph.D. from UWO in 2007. Her graduate work involved comparing language- and reading-impaired children on phonological processing, past tense morphology,  syntax, verbal working memory and speech perception. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UQAM studying language development in infancy.
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RAs, Honours Students and Volunteers

Kate Bryant 

Lab manager/research assistant.

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant

Research assistant.

Janet Aucoin

Current position: graduate student in Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Rachel Rabi

Fourth year honours student in psychology, working on nonword repetition and short-term memory.

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Melany Shepherd

Melany's investigated the relationships between working memory, categorical perception, and performance on nonword repetition tasks in children with language impairment. She is now a graduate student at the University of Toronto in Speech Pathology.

Jessica Taylor

Jessica worked with us examining the relationship between children's knowledge of reading and math.
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Stephanie Neilson

Stephanie's investigated categorical perception in children with dyslexia using eyetracking. She is now working on her masters degree in Speech Language Pathology at the University of Toronto.

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Blair Armstrong

Blair was an NSERC summer student working on connectionist modeling of speech processing. He's now a graduate student at Carnegie Melon University.

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Jared Berman

Jared has volunteered in our lab for two years. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Calgary.

Heather Beatton, B.A

Heather's honours thesis project studied irregular past tense development in preschoolers.

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Ali Terry, B.A.

Ali's Honours Psychology project focused on the reading and language abilities of normal, reading impaired and language impaired children. She now works at a speech-language pathologist.



Hannah Gordon, B.A.

Hannah's project examined categorical perception of speech and nonspeech sounds in adults using evoked potentials. She is currently a graduate student in Health Sciences at UWO.
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Rachael Millard, B.A.

Rachael examined the predictiveness of rapid automatized naming (RAN) to pre-reading abilities such as phonology and orthography, as measured by rhyming and letter naming. She is now in her second year of Communication Sciences and Disorders at UWO.
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Ed O'Neil

Ed was a third year undergraduate workstudy student. He is currently a graduate student in Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at UWO.

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Katherine Freeman, B.A.

Katherine worked on an ERP study investigating how English past tense morphology is processed and represented in the brain. More recently she has been an M.S.W. student at the University of Toronto.

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Natasha Gomes, B.A.

Natasha's honors thesis looked at the factors that influence reading achievement in elementary school aged children, including phonological awareness, language skills, working memory, previous experiences and socioeconomic status.

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Stella Ng, B.A.

Stella studied speech perception and reading ability in children with sensorineural hearing loss. She has since trained in audiology, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Health Sciences.

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Carol Ann Williamson, B.A.

Carol Ann's honors thesis explored the factors that promote exceptional reading. She is looking at language skills, phonological awareness and reading skills in elementary school aged children. She recently completed Teachers College at Lakehead University.


Nicole Ferreira

Nicole worked as an RA and before that was a fourth year honours student studying correlations between ERP measures of basic auditory perception and reading ability in school-aged children. She is currently a graduate student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Toronto.

 

Fahmida Pardhan

Fahmida was an undergraduate student in biology, volunteering in the lab. She is currently a graduate student in speech pathology at Case Western Reserve University.


 

 

 

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