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Graduate StudentsAlexis Bosseler
Emily Blumenthal
Gina C. Cardillo
Lotus Jo-Fu Lin
Berit Olsen
Tamara Spiewak Toub
Chiara Suttora, Graduate Student
InternsLoan Nguyen
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Ms. Bosseler is a doctoral student in Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl’s lab.
Ms. Bosseler earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include the development
of speech perception and production, and speech processing abilities in both typically developing children and children with developmental
disorders. Prior to entering Dr. Kuhl’s lab, she worked as a post-graduate researcher in the Perceptual Science Lab at UCSC. In her research
there, she studied the processing abilities of children with autism from an information-processing perspective.
Emily Blumenthal received her B.A. degree from Brown University in 2005.
She is a graduate student working with Dr. Andrew Meltzoff. She studies the development of causal reasoning in infants and preschoolers.
Specifically, she is investigating the cues that children use to learn the causal structure of events, and the role that imitation might
play in their learning process. She is also interested in children's understanding of probability.
Ms. Cardillo is a doctoral student working in Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl's
lab. She received her bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Psychology from Cornell University in 2001. Before coming to the UW,
she was a lab manager and research assistant for the Language and Cognition Lab in Columbia University's Psychology department.
She is especially interested in speech perception and production, the links between music and language, and second-language
acquisition. Her aim is to incorporate speech-language pathology issues into her research and apply theoretical findings to
clinical practice.
Ms. Lin is a graduate student working in Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl's lab.
She received her bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Master's from Speech & Hearing Sciences at the UW. Her interests include
experimental phonetics, second language learning and the application of neuroimaging methods in these fields. She is also interested
in the possible links between language and memory resources in bilingual cognition. She is now working with Dr. Kuhl and Dr. Imada
to investigate the role of language in numerical and mathematical thinking in bilinguals by use of different imaging methods.
Berit Olsen is a graduate student supervised by Professor Betty Repacholi in the Social and Emotional Development Lab. Berit received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Religion from Pacific Lutheran University. After graduating, she spent a year in Norway studying the Norwegian paternity leave system on a Fulbright Grant. Her interests center on emotional development in very young children. Currently, Berit and Repacholi are collaborating with Andrew Meltzoff in a study examining children's understanding of the emotional content of adult's behavior and how that affects their imitative learning. 
Tamara Spiewak Toub is a graduate student working with Dr. Repacholi
in the Social and Emotional Development Lab. Currently, Tamara's
research focuses on infants' understanding of other people's emotions
and how these emotions influence infants' behavior. Her other
interests include early peer and family relationships and their
influences on children's social and emotional development. After
earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Harvard University,
Tamara worked in NYC as a research assistant. Her projects included
the School-Age Care Project at the Cornell Early Childhood Program and
a variety of early language development studies in the Psychology
Department at Hunter College.
Chiara Suttora is a doctoral student in the University of Milano-Bicocca.
She earned her degree in Psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca
working with Dr. Salerni and Dr. D'Odorico. Her interests include
communication and language development in both typically developing
children and children born preterm. In her research she studied early
language acquisition of premature infants mainly focusing on the social
aspects involved in this process, such as turn-taking skills and infant
directed speech. She's now working at the I-LABS with Dr. Kuhl to investigate
speech perception skills of very-premature infants by use of behavioral methods.
Loan Nguyen an undergraduate senior who is doing an internship sponsored by
Casey Family Programs. Loan holds a Gates Millennium Scholarship and is
pursuing a degree in Medical Technology. She hopes to attend graduate
school in Laboratory Medicine. While her undergraduate
education has been focused on understanding cellular level functions, her
internship at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences allows her to
work along the opposite end of the continuum by studying whole systems
neuroscience. Her interests include the use of neuroimaging tools such as
ERP and MEG, and the study of autism.
