Current Team
Meet our research team
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Laboratory Director/PI
Dr. Syrett
Dr. Kristen Syrett
Dr. Syrett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, with a co-appointment in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). Her areas of specialization are language acquisition and psycholinguistics, with a focus on semantics and pragmatics (meaning). She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2007, with specializations in Language and Cognition and in Cognitive Science. She also has an M.Ed. and AMI Montessori certification. Before joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2011, Dr. Syrett spent three years as an NIH post-doctoral fellow at RuCCS, and one year as a RuCCS post-doc. She devotes her time outside of research to advocacy and service in the field of Linguistics, her two kids, her yoga practice and working out, baking, and her two mischievous beagles.
Graduate Students
Meg Gotowski
Ziling Zhu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Hanna Campiglia
Katie Cotter
Samantha Forcht
Amy Klemens
Erin Lavielle
Karen Li
Joy Lu
Caitlin Moy
Abeer Mumtaz
Claire Pansini
Amy Rosen
Maddie Russell
Nathaniel Serio
Sarah Zimmer