Principal Investigator
Julia Strand (B.A., Tufts University; PhD., Washington University in St. Louis) teaches courses including Introduction to Psychology, the Psychology of Spoken Words, and Sensation & Perception. Her research focuses on how humans are able to turn sensory information about speech into meaningful representations. Topics of research include how cognitive abilities influence language perception, what traits of words promote easy recognition, how word recognition abilities change with age, and how visual information (seeing the talker) influences language processing.
Lab Manager
Naseem (B.A., Carleton College) is the current lab manager of the Perception Lab. He is interested in environmental psychology, speech perception, and open science. Naseem also enjoys riding his bike, being outside, watching Netflix, and not taking himself too seriously.
Lab Members
Kate is a Computer Science major from Washington, DC. She has a many interests in psychology, particularly in speech acquisition and interpersonal communication. Outside of the classroom, she is a member of the Women’s Rugby team and tutors at the local youth center. Kate intends to attend medical school after Carleton.
ZhaoBin is a potential psych/cog sci/comp sci/maths/stats major. He lives in Singapore. He is constantly exploring diverse interests. For now he is most interested in artificial intelligence. He likes doing yoga and running in the arb.
