Welcome (bienvenue) to my web page!
I grew up in beautiful Ithaca, NY ("Ithaca IS gorges!") and happily stayed in town to complete my undergraduate degrees in Psychology and French Studies at Cornell University. I was lucky enough to spend the year following graduation on a Fulbright Fellowship at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Paris, France. Anyone who knows me can attest to my francophile tendencies! I have recently finished my graduate studies in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University under the guidance of Dr. James Morgan and Dr. Sheila Blumstein. I am currently a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Education at Dartmouth College, working under the direction of Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto.I am interested in how we learn our native language as infants, and how early learning shapes our later knowledge. I am now tackling these questions using both behavioral and neuroimaging approaches. I have been studying various aspects of infant speech processing, including
•How infants acquire language-specific phonological categories
•How young infants cope with phonological and non-linguistic variability in the speech signal
•How specific infants' lexical representations are after the onset of word learning
I am also interested in the nature of speech processing and lexical representation over the lifespan. In particular, I have asked whether differences we observe between adults and infants are due to qualitative differences in how we represent words in memory over the lifespan or quantitative changes in language experience.
You can find out more about what I've been doing by checking out my cv.
Or, if there's anything else you'd like to know, you can contact me at the email address above...