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Jeffrey Green – new lab director

With great appreciation for his years of astounding work and for his contributions to the lab, the department, and the field, we bid farewell to former lab director Darren Tanner, who has left the University of Illinois for new pastures. 

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Kailen Shantz wins research award

ELP Lab grad student Kailen Shantz has won the Chin W. Kim Research Award for outstanding research work as a graduate student in the UIUC Department of Linguistics. In his three years here so far, he has authored or co-authored 2

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Shantz receives DAAD grant

Congrats to ELP Lab grad student Kailen Shantz who was awarded a grant from the DAAD to support his work on the acquisition and processing of grammatical gender, to be carried out at the University of Braunschweig this summer!

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Jack Dempsey to join Penn State CLS

Congrats to our recent undergraduate Jack Dempsey who has accepted a position at a full time lab manager at the Penn State Center for Language Science. Jack will be working with psychologists and linguists and aspects of bilingualism and cognition.

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Journal of Neuroscience Methods: Response to commentary on our paper on high-pass filter

Check out our response to the reply by Maess and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute on our paper on high-pass filtering pitfalls in ERP research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027016000030

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CNS submissions accepted!

Two papers from our lab have been accepted for presentation at the 2015 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. Nyssa Bulkes will be presenting her poster entitled “Neural responses show effects of quantification during processing of agreement dependencies”, and Kailen Shantz will be

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Pictures from the Mental Lexicon conference

We’re back from the 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, and we had a great time. Lots of morphology, lexical access, and semantics — and some time for fun, socializing, and sightseeing too. Here are a few pictures… ELP

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New JML publication for Tanner

Darren Tanner has a new paper on the neural correlates of attraction interference during agreement comprehension, co-authored with Janet Nicol from the University of Arizona and Laurel Brehm from UIUC (soon to be a postdoc at Northwestern University), in the

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Tanner and Bulkes to present at the 2014 Psychonomic Society Meeting

Darren Tanner and Nyssa Bulkes will be presenting a poster titled “Eye Movements Reveal Asymmetric Effects of Grammatical Number in the Processing of Subject-Verb Agreement” at the 2014 Psychonomic Society Meeting in Long Beach, CA!

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ELP Lab researchers to attend 2014 Mental Lexicon Conference

Grad students Nyssa Bulkes and Kailen Shantz and lab director Darren Tanner will all be presenting at the 2014 Mental Lexicon Conference in Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Road trip, here we come!

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