Graduate Students

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.

Sadie Camilliere is a PhD student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received a B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from Swarthmore College, where she worked in the Psycholinguistics and EEG labs on projects investigating implicit and explicit processing of singular “they”.

Marisa Fried is in her second year of the Speech-Language Pathology MA program. She is passionate about cognitive linguistics, bilingualism, and indigenous languages. She has participated in research on verb agreement in K’iche (Mayan) at the University of Maryland and the relationship between dementia and hearing loss with Dr. Coco at SDSU. She hopes to work with the adult population as a speech pathologist, and aspires to be an outdoor educator on the side.

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.

Brennan Terhune-Cotter is a Ph.D. student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. He received a B.S. in Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience from Randolph-Macon College. Before coming to the LLCN, he spent three years as a research associate at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied the development of visual temporal attention in deaf children.