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Dr. Rochelle Newman

Chair, Dept. of Hearing & Speech Sciences
Associate Director, Maryland Language Science Center

Mine Muezzinoglu

Ph.D. Student

Mine obtained her B.A. in Neuroscience and French from Vanderbilt University in May 2020. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program working with Drs. Rochelle Newman and Bob Slevc. Her research interests focus on language processing and acquisition, and she is particularly interested in the relationship between language development and music cognition.

Kristin Hoch

Ph.D. Student

Kristin obtained her B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, followed by a post-bachelors research internship in computational climate science at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) program. Her research interests include phonetic learning and cognitive representations of language.