People

Dr. Rochelle Newman

Chair, Dept. of Hearing & Speech Sciences
Associate Director, Maryland Language Science Center

Mine Muezzinoglu

PhD student

Mine joined the Language Development Lab in 2022 and is conducting research on how people learn generally. She also contributes to the Canine Perception Lab, where she studies music cognition in dogs.

Amritha Mallikarjun

Amritha Mallikarjun was a PhD student under Dr. Rochelle Newman from 2014-2020, where her interest in speech perception and auditory processing in dogs drove the formation of the Canine Language Perception Lab in 2017. She graduated with her PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in 2020. Her thesis research focused on the impact of ambient noise in the environment on speech perception and word learning in infants and dogs. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, working on studies involving canine cognition, olfaction and scent detection at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center.

Emily Shroads

Emily Shroads was a previous lab manager for the Language Development and Perception Labs from 2015-2017. She was also the co-founder of the Canine Language Perception Lab. Prior to her role as a lab manager at UMD, she graduated with a BA in Linguistics and a BA in Computer Science from Duke University. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto.