People

Dr. Rochelle Newman

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

Katie Nguyen

Lab Manager

Katie received her Bachelors of Science and Arts degree in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2023. She is primarily interested in the relationship between bilingual and racial/ethnic identity development in immigrant children and adults. In the future, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in social or developmental psychology.

Jonet Artis

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jonet Artis is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the early language development of autistic children and children with other developmental disorders.

Christina Blomquist

Ph.D. Student

Christina obtained her B.A. in Speech and Hearing Science with an additional major in Psychology from the University of Iowa. She obtained her Master’s and Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology in the fall of 2023. Her primary research interests focus on language and literacy development, specifically the relationship between the development of language processing and reading acquisition. She was co-advised by Dr. Jan Edwards.

Erika Exton

Ph.D. Student

Erika obtained a B.A. in Linguistics and B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Penn State University in May 2018 and joined the lab as a Ph.D. student in Hearing and Speech Sciences that fall. Erika's research interests include language processing and bilingualism, as well as the ways these concepts are related to language perception.

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.