She previously served as the director of graduate studies for both HESP and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and is also a member of the Center for the Comparative & Evolutionary Biology of Hearing.
[2] More specifically, she is interested in how the brain recognizes words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise,[3] and how this ability changes with development.
She attended SUNY Buffalo for her graduate and doctoral studies, where she received her master's degree from the department of psychology in 1995 and her Ph.D. in 1997.
[5] She is also associate director of the Maryland Language Science Center (LSC)[6] and serves on the executive board of the Maryland Cochlear Implant Center of Excellence (MCICE)[7] and the Graduate Field Committee in Developmental Science.
Additional areas of research include bilingualism, sports-related concussions, and dog cognition.