Who We Are
Close Dr. Julie BolandI investigate the basic cognitive processes that underly word recognition and sentence comprehension. My research interests include the psychology of language; sentence comprehension, word recognition & discourse processing. How is syntactic knowledge stored and accessed? What is the relationship between syntactic and semantic processing? How are linguistic ambiguities resolved? Under what circumstances is unambiguous linguistic input difficult to comprehend? You can view some of my work on the Publications Page. |
Close Guadalupe de los SantosShe started her graduate studies in the fall of 2011, and has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in computer science from SUNY Stony Brook. She is interested in knowing the particulars of how language work, especially in how multiple languages interact within the same speaker. She would like to eventually have a better model of language in the brain, especially in the case of multiple languages. Currently, Guadalupe is working on a project that tests syntactic priming across languages. |
Close Justin SarkisJustin graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology and minor in Linguistics in May 2015. His undergraduate thesis investigated whether certain English accents affect the perceived credibility of a speaker. Justin is sticking around for one more year to complete the M.S. in Psychology program under the Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience concentration. His master’s thesis will investigate whether bi-dialectal speakers show a cognitive advantage compared to mono-dialectal speakers. |
Close Hang WeiI’m a visiting scholar from China. I’m currently working with Julie on structural priming during online sentence comprehension, focusing on issues such as how syntactic information is represented in Chinese-English bilinguals and L2 learners, and whether the processes and mechanisms underlying L1 processing are also available to L2 learners. |
Close Janie BrownJanie is currently a junior at the University of Michigan from Baltimore, MD. She is studying Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, with a minor in Political Science. She has numerous research interests, but she hopes that her experience in Dr. Boland's lab will help to narrow them down. Janie also is a part of the Michigan Quidditch team and volunteers with the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. |
Close Abby SohnCurrently a senior at the University of Michigan from Grosse Pointe, MI. Majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience as well as Spanish. I am a research assistant for Guadalupe de los Santos and am currently assisting with a study involving bilingualism. I plan on applying to graduate school next year, but I am still figuring out what area of psychology I would like to go into. I play intramural soccer at the University of Michigan and volunteer in Alpha Phi Omega, Michigan's co-ed service fraternity. |
Close Rennie PasquinelliRennie Pasquinelli is a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics double-major. This is her second year in the Psycholinguistics lab, and she is currently leading the turn-taking project. |
Close Maggie HsuMaggie is a senior studying Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, with a minor in Art History. She is interested specifically in second language experience and bilingualism. She is from Taiwan, and she speaks Mandarin and English, and is currently learning Japanese. |