Shari Baum - James McGill Professor
Isabelle Deschamps - Doctoral Student
Inbal Itzhak - Doctoral Student
Aruna Sudarshan - Doctoral Student
Katja Häuser - Doctoral Student
Benjamin Elgie - Doctoral Student
Phaedra Nowak - Research Assistant/Lab Manager
Isabelle Deschamps C.V. [.pdf]
isabelle [dot] deschamps [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
The research that I am currently undertaking focuses on the processes underlying speech perception, speech production and their interactions in healthy brains and neurological disorders. I am planning on using modern neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate the role of speech perception, speech production and their interaction in developmental stuttering and normal language development.
Favorite movie: Tears of the Sun
Inbak Itzhak C.V.
inbal [dot] itzhak [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
My main interest is the processing of ambiguities at the sentence level. In particular, I'm interested in how different factors such as verb information and prosodic information interact during the processing of structural and referential ambiguities. My dissertation focuses on the influence of contrastive stress, and implicit causality in the resolution of pronoun reference ambiguity.
Aruna Sudarshan
aruna [dot] sudarshan [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
My research interests are directed towards studying the interaction between language and cognitive processes in communication. My primary focus is investigating the mechanisms underlying bilingual lexical processing and representation (with cognate and non-cognate words) in healthy aging and neurologic disorders, using behavioural paradigms and tools of cognitive neuroscience like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Katja Häuser
katja [dot] haeuser [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
Me as a person: motivated and persistent. I like endurance sports. I love words and playing with language. I’m not funny.
My research interests involve (but are not limited to) the role of inhibitory function in (figurative) language processing, as well as the cognitive and neural changes underlying normal and abnormal aging. I'm also interested in the question if music and language share processing strategies (as has been claimed for syntax), and to what extent neural networks in music and language processing might overlap.
Benjamin Elgie
benjamin [dot] elgie [at] gmail [dot] com (Email)
I am currently studying the role of brain motor regions in speech production and perception, and the influence of modality, task, and speech level on their contribution. I am also investigating the interaction of somatosensory and auditory feedback in speech adaptation.
I have an interest in various investigative techniques, especially the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to alter brain activity.
Phaedra Nowak
arielle [dot] nowak [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
I am in my final year as a linguistics undergraduate. I am bilingual in English and IPA.
My role as lab co-ordinator involves keeping the lab organized and running smoothly. As a research assistant I am developing skills and knowledge in the field of neurolinguistics.