Mike just finished majoring in Symbolic Systems and Comparative Literature and now is serving as Scott Johnson's Lab Manager at NYU. He's interested in how mental representation works, how language develops, and also the French Revolution. Right now, he's working on studies about candles, hammers, and doors, and an alien race called Fribbles. Mike tends spends his weekends in strange ways (attached to pieces of rock by the waist or freezing in the snow, for instance).

Kevin majoring in Human Biology, with a concentration of "The Development of Language, Cognition, and Social Behavior." He's interested in linguistic relativity, theory of mind, social cognition, and cognitive development, to name a few topics. He's a lab rat this summer, working with labmates Hattie, Curly, and Muffin Monster to torture... er, learn from small children. If you have any questions about tennis, Kevin is your man.

Jamila combined her career in the lab with studies of art and pyramids. Her research investigated the key question of how we could manage to bribe small children to sit still long enough for us to pick their brains. Jamila's endless supplies of stickers and jolly ranchers soon established her a a lab hero, and she is sorely missed.

Alicia is our co-term student. She enjoys playing games with the children and secretely has a crush on Muffin Monster. Alicia played ultimate for the Stanford Ultimate team, which won theNational Championship this year. Good show, mate! Alicia is revered among lab insiders for kicking Yarlett high in the air during a soccer showdown. Even better show, mate!!

Becca is majoring in Human Biology. She got interested in the lab after taking a class on language and thought. She now spends time asking very small people to answer questions about Swedish hippos in disguise.

Nicole makes things happen; if you fall into her favor, she might give you some hard candies, or better still, money. Beides being our resident neuro-buff, Nicole is also a world-class belly dancer and seamstress. Little known fact: Nicole was the bride of George Michael before she wisened up.

Greg is a pretty happy guy, and is very pleasant to be around, except those times when he is in the corner speaking in tongues. Some linguists came over to investigate. The current theory is that a malfunction in his Language Acquisition Device caused him to repeat "Os ferpelem een verlopitam bol" over and over again.

Annie, an undergrad from Missoula, Montana, loves music and sings with Stanford's a cappella group Mixed Company and writes music too. She loves foreign foods, movies, and languages. She's working to understand how children's language development interacts with their attention (or lack thereof) to help them interpret ambiguous sentences. This summer she gained the unofficial designation of "Lab Hero" for her work in tracking down and bringing to justice more than 120 Red Rat Eaters, protecting many fortunate children in Wyoming and Montana from the dangerous phenomenon of stimulus impoverishment. Her hero is Pippi Longstocking.

Weaned on a diet of pomegranates and sweet potatoes, German cuisine came as a shock to Nadja, or "Nad" for short, when she arrived in Germany for a year-long stay before her first quarter at Stanford. However, she quickly adjusted, in the process gaining an undying affection for schnitzel, blutwurst, and language acquisition. Now that she's in sunny California, she's looking to capitalize on her experiences abroad with possible majors in psychology or linguistics and maybe a minor in German on the side. Welcome Nadja!

Name: Darice Chang
What I do here: Junior, majoring in Math and maybe Psych too
What I'm interested in CogSci wise: mental representation, learning, and experiments involving stuffed animals.
Favorite accomplishment: hm...
Favorite food: mango!

Lauren is a gnome, as can clearly be seen from the picture to the left. She has spent a little too much time talking about Whorf, and it's starting to affect her thinking. She's also interested in statistical models of concept learning, and how language and cognitive abilities develop in tiny people. Lauren will soon venture east to MIT to continue her studies.

Davie likes neurons, experiments, and rock. She likes to pretend she's a grad student, and Bjork. She likes eating week-old Ramscar Lab Pringles and defending theory theory, at least one of which is a habit we're trying to break. She works with glove puppets to find out more about children's developing understanding of syntax and semantics. The glove puppets really only contribute a small portion of the brainpower in that collaboration, though. Now she's off in the UK getting her master's.

Daisy is a sophomore who is interested in psychology, language, and history. She also is a member of the Stanford Ballroom Dance Team. Daisy has been working with Muffin Monster (Cookie Monster's cousin) to learn more about how language skills develop in little people, and how they can sometimes fix their mistakes without receiving any feedback.