Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Email: seg43@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Sarah Grey is a PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics in association with Georgetown's Spanish & Portuguese Department. Her research interests are primarily focused on examining the neurocognitive profile(s) of language processing in second language learners and bilinguals with respect to individual differences, including working memory capacity, procedural and declarative memory, attentional control, inhibitory control, and sex. An associated area of interest involves exploring how training individuals on tasks involving the recruitment of certain cognitive capacities affects the rate of acquisition and retention of second, or non primary, language material.

Visiting From: Uppsala University (Sweden)
Email: marhedenius@gmail.com

Research Interests: Martina Hedenius is an Assistant Lecturer and PhD candidate from the Department of Neuroscience (Unit for Speech and Language Pathology) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Martina's doctoral research focuses on language and non-language learning and memory in children with developmental language disorders. Her research project(s) aims at examining declarative and procedural learning and memory in a) children with Specific Language Impairment and b) children with Dyslexia, compared to typically developing children. During the year of 2008-2009 she will be in the lab to work with task development and data collection and analyses.

Department: Linguistics
Email: kmt49@georgetown.edu

Research Interests: Kaitlyn Tagarelli is a Ph. D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and has a B.S. in Neuroscience and French from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Her research interests include the neurocognition of first and second language acquisition, bilingual language processing, and investigating implicit and explicit learning in SLA. She is also interested in biological factors, such as genes and hormones, that influence language processing systems. Aside from neurolinguistics, she has studied the evolution of French Creole in Martinique and its role in cultural identity.