Principal Investigator
Benjamin K. Bergen
Interests: Language comprehension and production; meaning and grammar; humans and machines.
Graduate students
Sam Taylor
Interests: decision-making in humans and large language models.
Yoonwon Jung
Interests: How language and culture affect emotion concepts, and how emotion concepts construct human affective experience
Aaron Cohen
Interests: Large language models and individual differences in humans
Affiliates
James Michaelov
Interests: prediction in language comprehension.
James is a former Ph.D. student in the lab and now a postdoctoral scholar at MIT, working with Roger Levy.
Cameron Jones
Interests: how our knowledge about the world influences the way we understand language, how we make inferences to go beyond what is explicitly stated in the text, and persuasion in large language models
James is a former Ph.D. student and postdoc in the lab, and is now an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook in the Psychology department.
Catherine Arnett
Interests: Psycholinguistics, multilingual language models.
Catherine is an NLP Researcher at EleutherAI.
Sean Trott
Interests: LLM-ology, psycholinguistics, ambiguity
Sean is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Cognitive Science department and the Computational Social Sciences program at UC San Diego
Tyler Chang
Interests: language learning and processing in people and language models.
Tyler is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.
Pamela Riviere
Interests: neuroscience of both brains and large language models
Pam is a former postdoc in the lab who will be joining Rutgers Newark Psychology department as a postdoctoral scholar.
Research Assistants
Alex Liebscher
Dan Kaliblotzky
Graduate Student Alumni
Sean Trott (now at UCSD)
Joshua Davis (now at SCC)
Rachel Ostrand (now at IBM)
Elkin Darío Gutiérrez (also now at IBM)
Rose Hendricks (now with the Society Civic Science Initiative)
Manami Sato (now at Okinawa International University)
Tyler Margetis (now at UC Merced)
Nian Liu (now at University of Oklahoma)
Carl Polley (now at the University of Hawai`i)
Jawee Perla (now at American University)
Bodo Winter (now at University of Birmingham)
Napasri Timyam (now at Kasetsaert University)
Song Jiang (now at University of Hawai`i)
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Stefanie Reed (now at CUNY)
Alex Liebscher (now at BetterUp)
Dan Kaliblotzky
Travis Talcott (now at Binghamton University)
Mikhail Stahl (now at UserZoom)
Chitra Subrahmanyam
Myrna Aboudiab
Michael Belcher
Matt Wynn (now at Washington University)
Ben Stillerman (now at NYU)
Austen McMahan
Clarice Robenalt (now at LinkedIn)
Ankitha Bharadwaj (now at Facebook)
Ian Loofbourow (now at Playstation)
Joanne Ku (now at CalOptima)
Tam Nguyen
Chloe Sanossian (now at Safe-T-Proof)
Henry Bley-Vroman (now at Viget)
Iris Kolberg (now at PHCC)