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Marwa Abdalla   Psychology mabdalla@ic.sunysb.edu
       
Karla Batres   Psychology       kbatres@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
           
Frances Bottenberg   Philosophy  

Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, Stony Brook University, M.A. Philosophy, Temple University.

  fbottenb@ic.sunysb.edu
     
  Interests: Embodied cognition broadly construed; the influences of spatial and temporal analogies, habit, and affect on abstract reasoning
           
Susan Brennan   Psychology & Computer Science  

Ph.D. Stanford University. Professor, Cognitive/ Experimental Psychology & Computer Science.

  Susan.Brennan@sunysb.edu
http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan
     
 
  Interests: Psycholinguistics, human-computer interaction, understanding psycholinguistic phenomena in communicative contexts.  
           
Elizabeth Cohen   Psychology  

BA psychology, Adelphi University;  Research Assistant/Lab Manager, Stony Brook University; Psychology of speech and language, Stony Brook University.

  escohen1@yahoo.com
     
  Interests:   Speech production and development, gesture, learning development in children and adolescents.      
             
Weidong Cai   Psychology  

BS, BioMedical Enginnering, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univerisity, China; MA, Psychology, Peking University, China; Ph.D. Candidate, Psychology, Stony Brook University

  wecai@ic.sunysb.edu
     
  Interests:   Cortical circuit underlying cognitive control on the motor system; eye-hand coordinate system; eye-hand cooridinate system; cognitive function in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex  
           
Alexia Galati   Psychology  

B.A. Psychology, Stanford University; M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago; M.A. Psychology, Stony Brook University; Ph.D in Cognitive/ Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University

  alexia.galati@gmail.com
     
  Interests:   For-the-speaker vs. for-the-addressee adjustments in speech and gesture; cross-linguistic differences in speech and gesture; effects of gesture in memory and processing, effects of multimodality on early planning    
       
Anna Kuhlen   Psychology

Diplom Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2004).  Psychology.Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology.

anna.kuhlen@sunysb.edu
     
  Interests:   Collaborative theories of communication; coordination of gesture,  eye gaze and speech in naturalistic social interactions; audience design effects in speech and gesture  
       
Julie Romanchuk-  Weisenberg   Linguistics

MA TESOL – SUNY at Stony Brook; PhD in Linguistics – SUNY at Stony Brook; Professional: Instructor – Stony Brook University, Full time lecturer, Department of Linguistics; LIU Brooklyn TESOL/Bilingual Ed; instructor - Lehman College ESL Middle/HS Ed

  jweisenb@ic.sunysb.edu


   
  Interests:    Audience design, gesture, bilingualism, ESL, mouthing patterns in American Sign Language.  
           
Joanna Souza   College of Human Development, Biology   Summa Cum Laude-Stony Brook University, Psychology; PhD candidate-Walden University, Research and Evaluative Psychology with a concentration in Health Psychology.  
jsouza@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

        Interests:   Human Evolution, history and social behavior. Possible adaptive effects of depressive symptomology.    
             
Svetlana Stenchikova   Computer Science     svetastenchikova@gmail.com
           
Benjamin Swets   Psychology  

Ph.D. Michigan State University. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology.

  Benjamin.Swets@sunysb.edu
http://eyelab.msu.edu/people/ben
   
Interests:   Planning in language production; memory constraints on language processing; conversational interruptions.  
           
Georgios Tserdanelis   Linguistics   gtserdanelis@ms.cc.sunysb.edu
     
Anthony Weaver   Psychology   BS, MS Computer Science.  MA Psychology.  Doctoral Candidate Psychology.     aweaverjr@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
         
      Interests:   Language acquisition especially early speech perception and speech segmentation, developing psycho-computational models of language acquisition, second language acquisition, language acquisition in bilinguals      
   
Yanhong Zhao   Applied Mathematics & Statistics   Ph.D. graduate student, Stony Brook University  
yhzhao@ams.sunysb.edu
www.ams.sunysb.edu/~yhzhao
       
  Interests:   Memory, Cognition