Lab Managers

Christi Gomez
Christi received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Penn State University in 1998. After receiving her degree, Christi returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Christi joined us in February 2001 as our Laboratory Manager.


Anthony Kelly
Before coming to work in the Speech Perception and Learning Laboratory, Anthony taught English as second language in France for a number of years. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1986 and studied linguistics and translation (French - English) at Universite Paris IV.








Post-Doctoral Researchers

Yafit Gabay
Yafit Gabay started her career as an educational psychologist and conducted her PhD studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is interested in cognitive aspects of procedural learning, skill acquisition and memory consolidation. She specifically investigates motor and auditory non-declarative learning mechanisms as well as speech perception abilities and how these processes might be affected in neurodevelopmental disorders such as dyslexia.







Graduate Students

Sung-Joo Lim
Sung-joo has a B.S. in Computer Science from CMU. She is interested in studying auditory perception. She would specifically like to study the similarities between language and music and how music affects human emotion and memory.


Ran Liu
Ran is interested in the mechanisms that support general perceptual learning, with a focus on the auditory domain. She uses a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods to investigate how long-term auditory representations are formed and how they are flexibly adapted to short-term environmental regularities. Ran received her B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University.







Matt Lehet
Matt Lehet received his BA from Reed College and is interested in the mechanisms of auditory perception and categorization. While at CMU he hopes to extend this interest into the realms of second language learning, speech production, and human computer interaction.



Undergraduate Researchers

  • Zachary Betka
  • Rachel Browne
  • Minfu Zhang
  • Monica Ly

Lab Alumni

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Dr. Travis Wade, PhD
  • Dr. Daniel Hufnagle, PhD
  • Dr. David Wozny, PhD
  • Dr. Eva Reinisch, PhD
    • Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Former Graduate Students

  • Dr. Jingyuan (Sofia) Huang, PhD
  • Dr. Sara Guediche, PhD
    • Currently in a post-doctoral position in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at Brown University

  • Dr. Erin Ingvalson, PhD
    • Currently in a post-doctoral position at Northwestern University

  • Erika Laing, MS
    • Currently a clinical associate in Neurosurgery at UPMC, and completing a graduate degree at University of Pittsburgh

  • Dr. Vivienne L. Ming, PhD
    • Currently a visiting scholar at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley

  • Dr. Dan Mirman, PhD
    • Currently director of the Language and Cognitive Dynamics Laboratory at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

  • Dr. Joseph D.W. "Beau" Stephens, PhD
    • Currently an Assitant Professor at North Carolina A&T, Department of Psychology

Former Undergraduate Researchers

  • Kathleen Agres (2002 - 2005)
  • Marc Azoulay (2010 - 2011)
  • Preeti Badve (2009 - 2010)
  • Zeljka Buturovic Bradaric (2000 - 2002)
  • Siobhan Cooney (2000 - 2002)
  • Monica Data (2002 - 2002)
  • Nina Durai (2003 - 2004)
  • Ashley Episcopo (2002 - 2004)
  • Josh Fishbein (2005)
  • Brian Frederick (2000 - 2002)
  • Hannah Gordon (2009)
  • Sara Guediche (2004 - 2004)
  • Rachel Johnson (2010 - 2011)
  • Sara Kapner (2003 - 2005)
  • Ayus Kennedy (2005 - 2006)
  • Camilla Kydland(2002 - 2003)
  • Erika Laing (2000 - 2002)
  • Chris Laskowski
  • Brian Leahy (2003 - 2004)
  • Brian Levinthal (2002 - 2003)
  • Seth Liber (2001 - 2003)
  • Ran Liu (2007 - 2008)
  • Brian Mathias (2004 - 2007)
  • Laura Mazurkewicz (2002 - 2004)
  • Neha Mehta (2005 - 2006)
  • Wendy Niedelman (2004 - 2007)
  • Megan Nisargandi (2007 - 2008)
  • Howard Soh (2009 - 2011)
  • Eva Stroynowski (2002 - 2004)
  • Kristen Suzich (2010 - 2012)
  • Eric To (2001 - 2002)
  • Jodi Poniewaz (2001 - 2001)
  • Jeremy Wortman (2002 - 2003)
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