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Members

Principal Investigators

Dr. Jessica L. Montag

Website: http://languagestats.com/jessicamontag/

Jessica Montag studies how language abilities emerge with experience across the lifespan, including language comprehension, production, and reading. Dr. Montag uses varied methods and measures, including comprehension and production experiments in adults and children, compilation and analyses of text and speech corpora, and advanced quantitative methods.

Dr. Jon A. Willits

Email: jwillits@illinois.edu

Website: http://languagestats.com/jonwillits/

Jon Willits studies language and learning in infants, children, adults, and machines. His research uses computational, neurobiological, experimental, and naturalistic methods to better understand how people and machines learn, represent, and use languages and other forms of complex knowledge, especially word meanings and semantic knowledge.

Post-Docs

Anastasia Stoops

Email: agusico2@illinois.edu

Website: https://anastasiastoops.wordpress.com/

Anastasia Stoops studies how people learn and use language over the lifespan in order to improve cognitive remediation interventions in the educational and medical settings. She uses psychophysical behavioral paradigms coupled with eye-tracking and electrophysiological recordings.

Graduate Students

Zeynep Marasli

Email: marasli2@illinois.edu

Jingfeng Zhang

Jingfeng Zhang is interested in developing statistical and neurally-inspired models of learning, and examining how the structure of environmental input affects the efficiency of computational models. He is working on a project that aims to create a simulation of humans in a natural environment, using neural networks built with Unity3d to visualize the learning process

Github: https://github.com/cracrazjf

Lab Alumni

Philip Huebner (PhD 2022)

Lin Khern Chia (PhD 2023)

Emily Mech (PhD 2023)

Shufan Mao (PhD 2024)

Andrew Flores (PhD 2025)

Katherine Koch (Lab Manager)