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Current Lab Members
Summer 2022
Lab Director
Dr. Johnson received her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester where she majored in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and completed a Take Five program in Developmental Biology & Evolution. She then went on to earn her PhD in Psychological & Brain Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. During her final year as a PhD student, Dr. Johnson spent two semesters at the Speech Group at MIT. Dr. Johnson then accepted a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Dr. Johnson is now a Canada Research Chair in Spoken Language Acquisition and Professor of Psychology at UTM. She is also Director of the University of Toronto's Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Psychology. The main goal of her research program is to understand how young children acquire their native language.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests: Adaptation, processing L2 speech, language attitudes, reference, influence of extralinguistic factors on processing in children and adults
PhD Candidate (Year 4)
Research Interests: Language acquisition in early childhood bilingualism, relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development
PhD Candidate (Year 4)
Research Interests: Multilingual effects on language acquisition and perception, speaker recognition, music and language processing, auditory-visual speech processing
Jida Jaffan
PhD Candidate (Year 3), co-supervised with Craig Chambers
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics! How individual differences (e.g. empathy) can impact child language development and how children and robots use language to interact and learn
Emily Shroads
PhD Candidate (Year 1)
Research Interests: early word learning, accent adaptation, experiential effects in language acquisition, individual differences
Research Lab Co-ordinator
Research Experience: Research assistant in Dr. Laurel Trainor's Auditory Development Lab, research assistant in Dr. Sandra Trehub's Music Development Lab.
Lisa Hotson
Jessica Hira
Honours Thesis Student
Education: HSBC, Neuroscience Specialist, Biology for Health Sciences Major, Chemistry Minor, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Danyel Ore
IRP Student, Work Study Student
Education: Psychology Specialist, majoring in Criminology, Law & Society, minoring in Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
IRP Student
Education: Psychology Major Program, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Liaba Jat
IRP Student
Education: Psychology Specialist Program, minor in Linguistics, University of Toronto Scarborough
Expected Year of Graduation: 2024/25
Emily Kuik
Grace Fontaine
ROP Student
Education: Biology for Health Sciences and Psychology double major
Expected Year of Graduation: 2025
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Ishika Mroke
ROP Student
Education: Biology for Health Sciences Major with a double minor in Psychology and Linguistics
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Henna Lahib
ROP Student
Education: Psychology major, minor in Forensic Science and French Studies
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Simran Gujjar
ROP Student
Education: Double major in biology for Health Sciences and Psychology
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Wardah Nadeem
ROP Student
Education: Major in Biology for Health Sciences and Psychology
Expected Year of Graduation: 2025
Melynna Duong
ROP Student
Education: Biology for Health Sciences and Psychology double major
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Alexandra Hawse
Work Study Student
Education: Forensic Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2024
Kaitlyn Harris
Work Study Student
Education: English major, French and Education Studies minors, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Maripaz Gonzalez
Work Study Student
Education: Majoring in Biology for Health Sciences, minoring in Art History and Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2024
Leena Saleh
Work Study Student
Education: Double major in Political Science and Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Expected Year of Graduation: 2025
Josie Davies
Volunteer, Former Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Education: Psychology, Cardiff University
Expected Year of Graduation: 2023
Wujiamei (Grace) Sun
Volunteer
Education: Psychology Research Specialist
Expected Year of Graduation: 2024