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Our Alumni
 Dorota Ramlogan
Intern
Dorota Ramlogan is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Psychology with an English minor at Hunter College. She is also a member of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program and is working on her Honors thesis project with Professor Virginia Valian and Ph.D. Candidate Lucia Pozzan. Her research project investigates the production of English possessive pronouns in child language acquisition. |
Nathan LaFave
Intern
Nathan LaFave graduated from The University of Michigan in 2009 with a B.A. in Linguistics and Chinese Language and Culture as well as a minor in Music. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at NYU. He worked as an intern at LARC and as a research assistant on an NSF-funded doctoral dissertation grant to Lucia Pozzan and Virginia Valian. Nathan is primarily interested in sociolinguistics, and more specifically in Computer Mediated Communication.
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 Vicky D'Anjou-Pomerleau
Master's Student
Vicky D'Anjou-Pomerleau hails from Université de Montréal, Canada, where she obtained a Bachelor in Sociology and Psychology with a mention of excellence.
Interested in the issues of gender and political behaviors, she chose to approach those social issues from a psychological standpoint.
Vicky began a Master in Social Psychology at Hunter College in the fall of 2008. This year, she is working on her thesis with Professor Virginia Valian
and is thrilled to be able to combine her two main interests in her research. Her thesis project investigates people's perceptions of female and male political
candidates' work experience and personality attributes.
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Erica Knowles
Research Assistant/Lab Manager
Erica Knowles is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in
Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern
University. She is interested in how music and language
interact in the brain and how this can be used to better
understand basic perception of these two systems as well
as disorders involving deficits in music and language
processing. Erica completed a B.S. in Music History at
Hofstra University in 2006 and a M.S. in Experimental
Psychology at Seton Hall University in 2009.
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Pooja Paul
Intern
Pooja Paul will graduate from the Claremont Colleges, CA, in 2011 with a degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, and a minor in Studio Art. Besides English, she speaks Malayalam, Japanese and Hindi. She is interested in computational models of language, and is currently working on case in Malayalam. She will be pursuing a Ph.D in linguistics at Harvard next year.
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Jessica Goodwin
Intern
Jessica completed her Bachelor's degree in 2008 at
Bard College where she focused on Psychology, Gender
Studies, and Foreign Languages. Her primary interests
are in clinical and cognitive psychology as well as
teaching and learning new languages.
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Alicia Holland
Intern
Alicia Holland is a freshman at SUNY Binghamton. As
an intern at the lab and a member of the student
research program at Bronx High School of Science, she
helped with ongoing experiments and studied how
monolingual and non-monolingual English speakers
produce sentences. She focused on the effect of
hearing sentences involving one form of the locative
alternation -- for example, The girl loaded apples
into the wagon versus The girl loaded the wagon with
apples -- on the later production of similar
sentences. She is considering pursuing a major in
psychology or linguistics.
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Jacky de la Torre
Intern
Jacky de la Torre will be graduating from Dartmouth College in 2010 with a B.A. in Linguistics and French Literature. She enjoys transcribing random words in IPA and
studying completely unrelated languages she will probably never use, such as Hmong, Maori, and Swahili.
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 Laura Hennefield
Research Assistant/Lab Manager
Laura Hennefield is currently a graduate student in Psychology at Washington University in St Louis. She is studying the development of
preferences in infants and young children in Lori Markson's Cognition and Development Lab. Laura received her MA in Psychology from Hunter
College in 2008, where she completed her thesis on lexical and conceptual representations of kinds in Sandeep Prasada's Language and
Conceptual Development lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Purchase College (SUNY) in 2005.
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 Katherine Surrence
Research Assistant
Katherine Surrence is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She's studying the relationships between cognition and emotion in the Child Emotion Research Lab using behaviorial and psychophysiology methods.
In addition to her work at LARC, while at Hunter College she worked in Regina Miranda's Experimental Psychopathology Lab, and at Tracy Dennis's Emotion Regulation Lab.
Hunter is a great institution for aspiring psychologists! She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001 with a B.A. in English Literature and Psychology.
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 Brett Marroquín
Research Assistant
Brett Marroquín is currently a graduate student in clinical psychology at Yale University, where he is studying social-cognitive and affective processes that
may be implicated in suicide, self-injury, and other maladaptive escape behaviors. He received his B.A. in English and Creative Writing from New York University in 2002,
and his M.A. in Psychology from Hunter College in 2008. |
 Deniz
Cebenoyan
Research Assistant
Deniz Cebenoyan got her BS from Carnegie Mellon University with majors in Psychology and Spanish. Upon graduating in 2005, she began working as an RA at both LARC and the GEP and remained there until June 2006.
During this period, she spent many an afternoon eagerly poring over the true depth of an auxiliary verb with Dr. Batmanian (though Natalie may have an alternate account of Deniz's alacrity). Since then, she's been working as a Lab Manager at Columbia for Dr. Walter Mischel,
studying longitudinal correlates of self-control and consistency in social behavior. She also works as an RA for Dr. Ed Smith, researching schizophrenics and working memory at the NYS Psychiatric Institute. She is currently spending some free time bulking up her computer/human perception skills,
and hopes to work in the field of human computer interaction in the future. Other hobbies/dreams in life include playing the piano, writing songs to no one, and still upsetting her parents when she refuses to perform for the dinner guests. |
 Mark Harris
Intern
Mark J. Harris was an intern during the fall of 2006 while a sophomore at Dartmouth College. With a budding interest in language acquisition, he joined LARC to learn more
about language development in children and to assist in the ongiong research studies of Dr. Natalie Batmanian and Dr. Giulia Bencini. He also attended the 2006 Boston University Conference
on Language Development (BUCLD) with members of the lab. Owing to his time spent at LARC, he went on to create his own interdisciplinary major to learn more about language and the brain ("Biology modified with Linguistics").
He received his B.A. in June 2009 from Dartmouth College and is currently working as a Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, where he
is researching communication deficits in autism. He is in the process of applying to medical schools and wishes to eventually practice medicine alongside conducting research in public health. |
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