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Audiology & Auditory Evoked Potentials Laboratory Lab
Developmental Language Lab
Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Hearing Science Lab
Neurolinguistics Lab
Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab
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 Inge
Anema
Mag ik me even voorstellen? Which is Dutch for "let me introduce
myself." My name is Inge Anema and, yes, I'm Dutch. I started the
doctoral program at the GC in September '02. I received a BA in
Linguistics from Simon Fraser
University in British Columbia, Canada and a
MSc.in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of
Washington in Seattle. After living in
Europe for 7 years, I finally get to pursue my research
interests, which include adult bilingualism, language disorders and
language changes in the geriatric population. For my dissertation,
I'm investigating reading comprehension in late learners of a second
language
When not at the
GC, I lecture and supervise at Hunter College in the Communication
Science department
 Hia
Datta
Hi ! I am Hia Datta. I
completed my Bachelor's and Master’s
degrees in Speech Pathology and Audiology
from the All India
Institute of Speech and
Hearing, Mysore, India. Currently I am working
towards my doctoral degree at the Speech and Hearing Sciences
Department here at the Graduate Center.
My research interests lie in
adult neurolinguistics and bilingualism. I am currently working on a
project entitled "Testing theories of agrammatism in
Kannada" with Dr Loraine K. Obler and Dr Pratibha Karanth,
Professor, M. V. Shetty Institute of Speech and Hearing Mangalore,
India. We are examining how the syntactic structure of
the language Kannada (e.g. the high density of inflections in the
language) affects the appearance of agrammatism in its speakers. In
so doing, we are attempting to distinguish between
cognitive-neuropsychological and linguistic theories of agrammatism.
I am also working in Dr. Valerie Shafer’s developmental
neurolinguistics
lab learning how to use event related potentials.
Brain and language is my
passion
and I hope to go far with it!
Jung Moon Hyun
An neong ha se yo (that’s Korean for ‘Hello’)! My name is JungMoon
Hyun and I am currently a doctoral student in the Speech and Hearing
Sciences Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. I received my
Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Yonsei University
in Korea.
My main areas of research interests are in bilingualism, language
changes in normal aging and neurogenic disorders. One project I am
involved in is entitled "Idiom Expression in Normal Aging" with Dr.
Loraine K. Obler. The purpose of this study is to see how young and
older adults produce common expressions.
Studying and doing bilingualism research in New York, a big city
with a melting pot population, is so exciting. The Graduate Center,
in particular, makes this even more attractive as courses offered
are well structured and opportunities to work with outstanding
professors are available. Furthermore, I am really happy to be in
the Neurolinguistics Lab, where fellow students are very nice,
understanding, smart, and always willing to help each other. When
not doing research or studying, my interests include movies, eating
exotic cuisine, and traveling whenever possible.
 Elizabeth
Ijalba
Elizabeth Ijalba, M.A., M.PH., CCC-SLP is a
speech-language pathologist and doctoral candidate. Her research
focuses on reading and the problems that Spanish speakers face in
learning English as a second language. She has extensive clinical
experience working with different age groups and determining how
phonological development and visual processing interface in reading
and the learning of a second language.
Pamela
Mathews
Yael Neumann
Hi! My name is Yael
Neumann. I am a doctoral student in the Speech and Hearing Sciences
department at GSUC-CUNY. My research interests lie in the areas of
aphasia, aging and the brain. One project that I'm involved in with
Dr. Loraine K. Obler is entitled: "Comprehension of Vocal
Emblems by Individuals with Left and Right Brain Damage".
Vocal emblems are a set of nonverbal symbolic sounds that
cannot be strictly classified as words or non-words, e.g. “Shh”
for “Be quiet” and “Brr” for “It’s cold”. In this project, our aim is to further neurolinguistic
understanding of the representation of verbal and non-verbal sound
patterns in the cerebral hemispheres.
I'm
also involved in an electrophysiology project with Dr. Valerie
Shafer whereby we hope to use event-related potentials to understand
how adults process regular and irregular past tense verbs.
Clinically, I
work as a speech-language pathologist at a Rehab Center in Brooklyn
where I assess and treat clients of all different ages with varied
disorders (never gets boring!).
My major clinical interests lie in aphasia, neurogenics,
voice and fluency disorders.
Barbara O'Conner
Hi. My
name is Barbara O’Connor. I am an ASHA certified bilingual
speech-language pathologist and doctoral candidate in the Speech and
Hearing Sciences Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. I am
presently working on my dissertation, which examines the production
of copula verbs in Spanish-English bilingual speakers with
agrammatic aphasia. My primary research interests include the
manifestation, recovery processes and treatment of aphasia in
monolingual and bilingual/bidialectal populations. I have worked
extensively in acute and subacute rehabilitation of neurogenic
communication disorders.
In addition to my doctoral studies, I am also an Instructor in the
Communication Sciences Department at Hunter College, NY. I teach
coursework in aphasia, voice disorders, dysphagia, and clinical
practicum.
Peggy Conner
Hi! My name is Peggy and I am a doctoral student in the
Speech and Hearing Sciences department. I studied Speech Pathology
and Audiology at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and received a Master of
Science degree in Communicative Disorders at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison. I have lived abroad for many years and and
have had the opportunity to work and study in several countries
including Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, England, as well as here in
the New York area. My research interests include bilingualism and
developmental dyslexia in adolescents and adults. I am currently
working on a study with Dr. Loraine K. Obler and other members of
the neurolinguistics lab on idiom production in adults.
 Mary
Prime
 Daniel
P. Rubino
I’m
currently in the Linguistics doctoral program at GSUC-CUNY, though
to be more accurate I would consider myself a biolinguist (see
Jenkins, 2000). Originally from Connecticut, I have a B.A. in
political science from Siena College, NY with minors in biology and
psychology, recently completing graduate work in language
acquisition & syntax at the University of Connecticut and Boston
University. Broadly speaking, I am concerned with two questions put
forth by Chomsky in regards to language: What are the relevant
brain mechanisms? & How does this knowledge evolve (in the
species)? Agrammatism appears to be an appropriate disorder in
which to study the former and in which I concentrate, while the
latter we can only speculate (at this time).
Currently I am thinking about prepositions, the lexical/functional
divide and how this may affect theories of agrammatism (following
Froud, K., 2001). I also have a general interest in exploring
language evolution (phylogenetic development), ontogeny, syntactic
theory and the architecture of the language faculty. When I’m not
doing any of the above, I spend my nights moonlighting as a film
projectionist on Long Island.
Teresa Signorelli
Hi.
I’m Teresa. I’m a bilingual speech-language pathologist in private
practice and a student here at the Graduate Center. Presently I am
working on my dissertation that looks at short-term working memory
in both the highly specialized and the aging brain. I am looking at
individuals from younger to older adulthood who are either
professional simultaneous interpreters or non-interpreter
multilinguals. Other projects that I have been involved in regard
stress and language performance in a non-native language,
agrammatism in multilinguals, and speech perception and production
in typically developing and language impaired bilingual children. My
professional ambition is to develop a research oriented private
practice that focuses on multilingual issues across the lifespan in
both healthy and clinical populations.
Yan Helen Yu
Hi, I am Yan Helen
Yu. I received my Bachelor’s degree from
Hubei Normal University in China, and was just one step away for
getting my Master’s degree in ESL education from Hubei University
right before I decided to take the job offer as a teacher of speech
and hearing handicapped in New York city. After moving to New York
city, I earned my Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from
St. John’s university. I am currently working as a bilingual
speech-language pathologist with Early Intervention population.
Prior to moving to NYC, I worked as a
college instructor at Xianning college and did some research in
cross-cultural communication and ESL learning. With my previous
mentor, Dr. Frederica Bell-Berti, I had two poster presentations on
native Mandarin speakers’ perception and production of English at
the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in 2005.
I am presently
a Ph. D. student in the Speech and Hearing
Sciences Program at the
CUNY Graduate Center. In the Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
directed by Dr. Valerie Shafer, I am collaborating with my fellow
lab mates on several research projects using neurophysiologic method
to investigate the relation between neural mechanism and speech and
language processing. I am interested in using neurophysiologic
method to investigate speech and language processing in infants,
children and bilingual population.
In-residence
Visitors to the Neurolinguistics Laboratory
1987
Pirkko Kukkonen, Helsinki University, Finland
2001 Prathibha Karanth, Shetty Institute, Mangalore, India
2003 Jessica Cancila, Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
2004 Alessandra Riccardi, Universita per Stranieri, Perugia,
Italy
Ruth
Berman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Anne Aimola Davies, Australian National University
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