2013 October

The Language and Brain Lab Welcomes PhD Candidate, Olga Vasilev!

October 24, 2013

We would like to welcome Olga Vasilev to the LABlab team! Olga is currently working towards a PhD in Developmental Psychology. She has a BA and MA in Linguistics and a MAE in Educational Psychology degree during her studies in the US. She is interested in the area of language and cognition, their evolution, and first language acquisition.

Welcome Olga!
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Beverly Hannah Awarded the SSHRC CGS and SFU Provost Prize of Distinction

October 16, 2013

Beverly has been awarded the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and the SFU Provost Prize of Distinction, along with a partial Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Linguistics for the 2013-2014 academic year. This semester, Beverly is focusing her research time at the lab on data collection for the Audio-Visual Communication project, and on preparing manuscripts for publication for the PG and AVA projects.

Congratulations, Beverly!

Lindsay Leong Graduates from MA Program

October 10, 2013

Following a successful thesis defence on August 13, 2013, Lindsay Leong (Walker) officially graduated with a Master's of Arts in Linguistics degree on October 10, 2013. Lindsay's thesis project explored auditory and articulatory priming effects on the perception and production of speech sounds, and was affectionately dubbed '3PO' for short. Lindsay has also been an integral part of the Pitch-Gesture project, conducting much of the data analysis for that project, and will be very much missed.

Congratulations, Lindsay, and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!