Emily Akers
Emily Akers is a PhD student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received her BA in psychology from SDSU and has spent the last two years working as a lab manager for the NeuroCognition lab using EEG/ERPs to study the processing of sign language in ASL learners and deaf adults.
Ayden Kpormegbey
Ayden Kpormegbey is a PhD student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received her BA in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from SDSU. Her research focuses on language acquisition and reading using eye tracking and EEG/ERPs.
Sofia Ortega
Sofia Ortega is a PhD student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received her BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience from SDSU in 2023. Her research focuses on American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling and English reading using event-related potentials (ERPs).