People

Jennifer Blatt

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a senior at Rutgers University-New Brunswick majoring in Psychology and minoring in Criminology. Upon the completion of my undergraduate studies, I plan to pursue a Doctorate in Psychology with the ultimate goal of becoming a Clinical Psychologist.

Miaofan Chen

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am an international student from China and a senior at Rutgers University studying Psychology and Cognitive Science. I am broadly interested in the early development process of numerical representation and the factors that would impact and facilitate their acquisition, including but not limited to social interventions, language, memory, and emotion. I was delighted to join Prof. Stromswold’s lab and design a project about discovering the syntax difference between Mandarin and English in interrogative sentences. My hobbies include but are not limited to playing table tennis, Kalimba, Ukulele, and Piano, and being friends with nice people.

Yarkin Ergin

Ph.D. Student 

I am a graduate student working on sentence processing. My work involves both comprehension and production experiments to establish the link between the former and the latter. I do that by employing Turkish, my native language, in certain experimental designs to establish relationship between various linguistic features and ease of comprehension and production. I also like statistics, space, and hiking.

Brittany Hague

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a junior at Rutgers University double majoring in linguistics and psychology with a certificate in speech and hearing science with a minor in history. I plan to further my education at graduate school and wants to pursue a Doctorate of Clinical Science in Speech Language Pathology after graduating. I am interested in understanding the ways in which psychology, language and cognition work together, especially for those with mental and physical disabilities that impair communication. I am incredibly passionate in my goal to become a speech language pathologist with specializations in child language, language disorders and autism spectrum disorder. In my free time, I enjoy nature, music and my dogs.

Lauren Hunsdorfer

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a current sophomore at Rutgers University double majoring in Psychology & Cognitive Science. After graduation, I plan to pursue a Doctorate in Psychology with an ultimate goal of doing research in the neuropsychology field.

Alexandra Kuziemski

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I’m a senior at Rutgers University majoring in psychology and cognitive science, and minoring in linguistics. My research interests are in language processing and behavioral medicine, specifically physician-patient interactions.

Lars Olsen

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Hello! My name is Lars Olsen and pictured to the left is Molly, my very best friend and soulmate. I am a third year at RU New Brunswick, and I am double majoring in Cognitive Science and Psychology. I aim to research the correlation between linguistics and sleep, and am excited to join this Research Team.

Kuba Suchojad

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a non-traditional senior double majoring in Psychology and Cognitive Science. I am interested in cross-linguistic differences and what they tell us about language processing and overall cognitive patterns. I am currently working on my senior thesis that explores wh-scope marking in the Polish language. My non-linguistic interests include vision science and multi-modal processing of stimuli under high cognitive loads.

Binghui Tang

Post-graduate Research Assistant

I graduated in May 2022 at Rutgers with a major in Cognitive Science and minors in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics. My angst and curiosity about death are what drive me passionate on learning about human mind. I plan on pursuing a Doctorate in Cognitive Science related discipline in particular linguistics and neuroscience. My research interests are in the argument-adjunct asymmetry in Mandarin wh-question and the processing of negation in Mandarin using event-related potentials (ERP) measured by EEG.