People

Lab Director

L. Robert (Bob) Slevc, Ph.D.

Office: BPS 1145B
Phone: (301) 405-5835
Email: slevc@umd.edu

Bob Slevc is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and a part of the program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at the University of Maryland. He got his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego and was a postdoctoral scholar at Rice University and a lecturer at Harvard University before coming to UMD.

Graduate Students

Dave Kush

Dave Kush is a PhD student in linguistics. He mainly works on syntax and adult sentence processing.

Alison Shell

Alison Shell is a first year graduate student at UMD. She received her undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science at Vassar College and has since worked for Boston University and the UMASS Shriver Center studying language and autism. She is looking forward to investigating the complex ties between language and cognition.

Research Assistants

Leon Li

Leon is an undergraduate freshman at UMD, where he has started his major in Psychology and minors in Neuroscience and Creative Writing. As a student in Global Public Health Scholars, a pre-health curriculum and Active Minds, he hopes to someday work in mental health.

Teresa Longo

Teresa has not yet written a blurb for the website.

Joshua Robusto

Josh has not yet written a blurb for the website.

Sadhvi Saxena

Sadhvi is a Neurobiology and Physiology major hoping to graduate in 2013. As a music enthusiast, she is excited to explore the relationship between aphasia, music, and language.

Ryan Simmons

Ryan Simmons is a research assistant and lab manager at the LMCL. He is a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he received a B.A. in Biology and English.

Eliana Sudikoff

Eliana Sudikoff is a rising senior Neuropsychology major and Neuroscience minor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also works as a research assistant at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and at the University of Maryland Neurocognitive Development lab. In her spare time she is a musical theatre buff and is President of Mezumenet, one of the University of Maryland's a cappella groups.

Zac Tchopev

Zac Tchopev is an undergraduate set to graduate in Spring 2013 with a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology. Zac is working on a project to demonstrate the power of MRI to predict space-occupying cerebellar infarction as well as MRI analysis of the brain in stroke patients with symptoms of aphasia.

Lab Alumni

Caitlin Hearn

Kyougeun Kim

Ilanna Newman

Daniel Paul

Anjana Rao

Brad Schachat