Language, Cognition and Development Lab





Jacques Mehler  
Position: Director of Research
Phone: (+39) 040 3787612
E-mail: mehler@sissa.it
Webpage: Link




Marina Nespor  
Position: Senior Linguist for the ERC Pascal project
Phone: (+39) 040 3787624
E-mail: marina.nespor@sissa.it
Webpage: Link
Interests: Phonology, language acquisition and communication vs human language




Perrine Brusini  
Position: PostDoc
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/perrinebrusini/
Interests:Syntax acquisition and processing and on-line speech prediction










Alan Langus  
Position: PostDoc
Phone: (+39) 040 3787625
E-mail: langus@sissa.it
Interests:Language acquisition
Evolution and cognitive development









Alissa Ferry  
Position: PostDoc
Phone: (+39) 040 3787619
E-mail: aferry@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition and brain development








Hanna Marno  
Position: PostDoc, CERES Fellow
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: hmarno@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition, Learning and memory in infancy, Communication




Ana Flo  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: anaflo@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition




Yamil Dos Santos  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: yvidal@sissa.it
Interests: Functional neuroanatomy and functional connectivity of language and music processing




Milad Ekramnia  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: ekramnia@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition




Francesca Gandolfo Alesci  
Position: Research Assistant
Phone: (+39) 040 3787618
E-mail: gandolfo@sissa.it




Marijana Sjekloca  
Position: Research Assistant
Phone: (+39) 040 3787601
E-mail: marijana@sissa.it




Former Members



Bahia Guellai  
Position: PostDoc, Fyssen Foundation Fellow
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: bahia.guellai@sissa.it
Interests: Development of sociocognitive skills; Face perception and recognition at birth; Audio-visual speech perception




Ertugrul Uysal  
Position: Master's student at University of Trento
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: uysalerturul@gmail.com
Interests: Language Perception




David Gomez  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787619
E-mail: dgomez@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition




Amanda Saksida  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: asaksida@sissa.it
Webpage: http://lojze.lugos.si/~amanda
Interests: Language acquisition




Andrea Anahi Junyent  
Position: PostDoc
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: ajunyent@sissa.it
Interests: Language acquisition and cognitive development
Mikhail Ordin
Position: PostDoc
Phone: (+39) 040 3787625
E-mail: mordin@sissa.it
Interests: 1st and 2nd language acquisition and speech perception




Silvia Benavides  
Position: PhD student
Phone: (+39) 040 3787613
E-mail: benavide@sissa.it
Interests:Memory in infancy and childhood
Cognitive development
language acquisition










Luca Bonatti  
Position: Research associate




Laurence White  
Position: Research Fellow
Email: laurence.white@plymouth.ac.uk
Webpage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~pslsw




Marcela Peña  
Position: Post-Doc
Interests: Cognitive Development




Agnes Kovacs  
Position: PhD student




Judit Gervain  
Position: PhD student




Juan Manuel Toro Soto  
Position: Post Doc




Ansgar Endress
Position: PhD student




Mohinish Shukla
Position: PhD student




Erika Marchetto  
Position: PhD student
Interests: Developmental Psychology




Ernő Teglas  
Position: PhD student
E-mail: teglas@mtapi.hu
Interests: Probabilistic Reasoning




Jean-Remy Hochmann  
Position: PhD student
Interests: Language acquisition