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About the Director
 Virginia
Valian, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Hunter College, CUNY
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics,
CUNY Graduate Center
Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Linguistics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York (CUNY). She is a cognitive scientist whose
research focuses on language acquisition in two-year-olds, second
language acquisition, and sex differences in cognition. |
Research Team
 Lidiya
Tornyova
Graduate student
Lidiya Tornyova is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Linguistics
Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
(CUNY). Her primary interest is the acquisition of syntax. Lidiya
is currently conducting an elicited imitation study of the production
of wh-questions by 2-year-old Bulgarian-speaking children,
for dissertation which, focuses on young children's acquisition
of questions in Bulgarian. |
 Lucia Pozzan
Research Assistant
Lucia Pozzan is a graduate student in Linguistics at CUNY (Graduate Center) and a teaching fellow at Queens College. Her primary interest is psycholinguistics (first and second language acquisition, child and adult language pathology).
Lucia received her BA in Portuguese and Latin American Literature and her master's in Linguistics from Università di Siena, Italy.
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 Katherine Surrence
Research Assistant
Katherine Surrence is a Master's student in Psychology at NYU. She is interested in social cognition in clinical populations, cognitive approaches to narrative, and their applications to psychotherapy. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Katherine graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001, where she majored in English Literature and minored in Psychology.
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 Laura Hennefield
Research Assistant
Laura Hennefield is Master's student in Psychology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her interests are in language and cognition, and she is completing her thesis on lexical and conceptual representations of kinds. Laura received her B.A. in Psychology from Purchase College (SUNY) in 2005.
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