People

Principle Investigator

Xin Xie, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine, Social Science Plaza B, Room 2223,

Xin Xie, PhD,

Senior lab members

  • Haleh Farahbod, PhD,
  • Specialist,
  • Departments of Cognitive Sciences and Language Science.
  • University of California, Irvine,

  • Will (Chih-Chao Chang),
  • I am a PhD student in Language Science at UC Irvine. My research interests encompass speech perception and production in both healthy and clinical populations, with an aim to approach these topics with an interdisciplinary perspective drawing from linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling. Prior to joining UC Irvine, I received my B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and completed my M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS).

  • Yuting Gu,
  • Hi everyone, I’m Yuting and I am a PhD student in Language Science. Broadly, I am interested in everything about speech including speech perception and production, from behavioral, neural, and computational perspectives. Currently my research focuses on the perception and production of speech prosody. I received a B. A in German (2019) and an M.S.Ed in Educational Linguistics (2020).

  • Yiming Lu,
  • I am a student of (applied) linguistics linguistics. My interest lies in the intersection between language and memory. How is the mental representation formulated? What are the cognitive mechanisms underlying its change? How does change unfold on the computational level? What can be learnt through statistical learning and what cannot? In the years to come, I aim to solve these puzzles and become a (computational) socio/psycholinguist..

Undergraduate assistants:

  • Michelle Chao, I’m a Forth-year double majoring in Cognitive Sciences and Language Science, minoring in Spanish. My research interests include the processes underlying codeswitching as well as L2 acquisition, production, and comprehension.

Collaborators

Dr. Gregory Hickok, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Professor of Speech and Language Science, University of California, Irvine,

Dr. Kourosh Saberi, Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine,

Dr. Connor Mayer, Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine,

Dr. Chigusa Kurumada, Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester,

Dr. T. Florian Jaeger, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, University of Rochester,

Dr. Susanne M Jaeggi, Professor, School of Education, University of California, Irvine,