Current Researchers

(Top Row) Gabor Brody, Amanda Martino, Roman Feiman, Brian Leahy, Patrick Rourke                   (Middle Row) Laila Johnston, Annika McDermott-Hinman, Ya’el Sarig, Jaclyn Cohen, Josh Jaramillo Lopez, Alyssa Marie Li-Ann Loo
(Bottom Row) Yanwan Zhu, Ariel Stein, Anna Smith, Lucy White

Principal Investigator

Roman Feiman

Roman received his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University in 2015. He completed his postdoctoral work at Harvard and UC San Diego before coming to Brown. His work draws on a variety of approaches and methods from cognitive developmental psychology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and formal semantics. Roman directs the Brown Language and Thought Lab.

 

Lab Manager

Amanda Martino

Amanda received her Bachelor’s degree in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience from Western University in Canada and completed a clinical Master’s of Health Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Toronto. She is currently the lab manager of the BLT Lab. Outside of the lab, she enjoys cooking, reading, and being outdoors.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gabor Brody

Gabor’s research explores infants’ and children’s ability to keep track of the identity of objects, agents, and other entities. He defended his dissertation in 2020 at the Cognitive Development Center of Central European University. During his PhD, he also conducted research at the Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies and at RICO (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Website: www.gaborbrody.com

Graduate Students

Yanwan Zhu

 

Annika McDermott-Hinman

Laila Johnston

Sam McGrath

University of Bath Interns

Ellie Travers

Ellie is a Psychology student from the University of Bath, currently spending her third year at Brown University as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. She is excited to learn more about children’s development of thought and behaviour whilst furthering her understanding of the research process. In her free time Ellie likes running, travelling and playing soccer.

Tara O’Sullivan

Honors Thesis Students

Daniel Kang

Daniel is concentrating in Linguistics and Mathematics – Computer Science at Brown University. He is interested in how language mediates, facilitates, or allows for rational thinking, especially in the context of discourse. He is interested in employing formal tools and computational methods to study such a relationship. Outside of academics, Daniel likes to go for a run, play music, and read poetry.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Patrick Rourke
Julia Ceccarelli

Julia is an undergrad at Brown University, concentrating in Cognitive Science. She is interested in the evolution of language, especially in the context of human development. In her free time, Julia plays the cello and takes pictures of her dog.

Brayden Diu
Isabelle Boun

Isabelle is a student at Brown University with interests in language, literature, and their intersection with the sciences. She is fascinated by multilingual acquisition and child social and personality development. In her free time, Isabelle enjoys reading, playing the piano, and practicing Spanish and French on Duolingo.

Sabrina Sanclemente