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Prof. Bob McMurray is the director of the MACLab.
He is in his fifth year teaching at the University of Iowa. Before arriving here, he was involved with research on the development of speech and visual categories in infancy, and on online spoken word recognition in adults, with Richard Aslin and Michael Tanenhaus. In addition, he has done significant work extending eye-movements as a paradigm for studying both infant and adult perception and cognition.
He hopes to continue this reseach in the next few years, and also extend it to new domains: computational modeling, speech disorders and impairments, and visual and nonspeech auditory categories.
Website
Email: bob-mcmurray at uiowa.edu
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Post-Doc |
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Dr. Ashley Farris Trimble
Email: ashley-trimble at uiowa.edu
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Lab Manager |
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William Dan McEchron is a former MACLab alumni who has returned to accept the responsiblities of Lab Manager. He recently recieved his B.A. in Psychology and plans on going to graduate school in the future. Originally from Bettendorf, Iowa; he enjoys music, film, cooking, long walks on the beach and synthesising words in Klattworks.
Email: william-mcechron at uiowa.edu
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Graduate Students |
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Joe Toscano is a fourth-year grad student in the MACLab. His research uses computational models to understand how humans learn the categories of speech sounds used in languages. Prior to coming to Iowa, he was an undergrad at the University of Rochester. He is originally from Greece, NY, a town north of the city of Rochester. In his spare time, he is a computer hobbyist, amateur astronomer, and an emergency medical technician.
Website
Email: joseph-toscano at uiowa.edu
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Cheyenne Munson is the other fourth-year graduate student in the MACLab. Before coming to Iowa she was a psychology major at Oberlin College. Her research there focused on children's use of pragmatic cues in reference resolution. Now a transplant to the midwest, Cheyenne is originally from Fort Bragg, California. When she's not in the lab she enjoys swimming laps, swing dancing, and knitting.
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Email: cheyenne-munson at uiowa.edu
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Marcus Galle is a third-year graduate student in developmental science. He is originally from Texas, having studied psychology at Texas A&M University. He enjoys playing guitar, running, tennis, computers, photography, and winter activities involving that extremely foreign substance snow.
Website
Email: marcus-galle at uiowa.edu
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Keith Apfelbaum is the newest graduate student in the Maclab.
Email: keith-apfelbaum at uiowa.edu
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Adjunct Graduate Students |
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Gwyneth Rost is a doctoral student in Speech Pathology at The University of
Iowa. She is an alumna of Grinnell College and has earned master's degrees in
Linguistics and in Speech Pathology from the University of Louisville. Her
research at both the Word Learning Lab (in the department of Speech Pathology
and Audiology) and in the MACLab focuses on lexical development in infants and
children.
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Email: gwyneth-rost at uiowa.edu
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Stephanie Packard is a graduate student in Prof. Prahlad Gupta's lab.
Email: stephanie-packard at uiowa.edu
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Undergraduates |
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Ashley Wallett
Email: ashley-wallett at uiowa.edu
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Darrin Miller
Email: darrin-miller at uiowa.edu
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Natasha Bullock-Rest
Email: Natasha-Bullock-Rest at uiowa.edu
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Eric Craft
Email: eric-craft at uiowa.edu
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Lawrence Rieger
Email: lawrence-rieger at uiowa.edu
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Meredith Englund
Email: meredith-englund at uiowa.edu
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Nicole Cigrand
Email: nicole-cigrand at uiowa.edu
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Lauren Marshall
Email: lauren-marshall at uiowa.edu
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