IBACS EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITEE
Institute Director
Psychology
Gerry Altmann
Research Interests:
Adult language processing; Influence of context on sentence comprehension; Event comprehension; Interface between language and vision.
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Institute Associate Director
Physiology & Neurobiology
Joseph LoTurco
Research Interests:
Malformations of cortical development, neural circuit excitability and epilepsy; Pediatric brain tumors and tracking sources of cellular diversity; Learning disorder associated genes in neural circuit function.
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Institute Associate Director
Psychology
Jim Magnuson
Research Interests:
Language processing, especially real-time integration of information at multiple scales; Language development; EEG/ERP, Computational modeling.
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Director of ECOM
Philosophy
Dorit Bar-On
Physiology & Neurobiology
Joanne Conover
Research Interests:
Neural stem cell biology and its application in neurodegenerative disease.
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Neag School of Education
Michael Coyne
Research Interests:
Reading Instruction and Intervention; Learning Disabilities; Language and Vocabulary Learning; Multi-tiered Systems of Support (RTI).
Psychology
R. Holly Fitch
Research Interests:
Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; Models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability.
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Neuroscience
Eric Levine
Research Interests:
Synaptic modulation in the hippocampus and neocortex, Synaptic deficits in autism and related neurogenetic disorders, Kalirin.
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Psychology
John Salamone
Research Interests:
Psychopharmacology; Neurochemistry and behavior; Behavioral functions of dopamine and acetylcholine; Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression.
Linguistics
William Snyder
Research Interests:
Child language acquisition; Comparative syntax and morphology; Syntax-semantics interface; Theory of grammar.
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Ex Officio Members
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Director of Cognitive Science Program
Carl Coelho
Research Interests:
Discourse; Aphasia; Traumatic brain injury.
Psychology
Head of Department
Jim Green
Research Interests:
Parent-child relations; Social Development; Prelinguistic communication; Quantitative methods.
Psychology
Director of Brain Imaging Research Center
Jay Rueckl
Research Interests:
Visual word recognition; Morphology; Computational models.
Executive Committee Meetings
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IBACS INTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD
- Jeff Shoulsen - Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
- Andrew Moiseff - Associate Dean for Behavioral and Life Sciences
- Michelle Williams - Associate Vice President, Research
- Michael Lynch - Director, Humanities Institute
- George Kuchel - Director, Center for Aging, UConn Health Center
- Amy Gorin - Associate Director, Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy
The remit of the internal advisory board is to advise both on shorter- and longer-term issues of strategic importance (i.e. advising both on Institute-internal matters but also on issues that may impact externally on the Institute – e.g. strategic developments at UConn, building and space developments, etc.). The board will also monitor and evaluate the extent to which the Institute is meeting both its own and UConn’s broader institutional aims.
Internal Advisory Board Meetings
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