Sentence Processing Team @ LAPROS Lab

Sentence Processing Team: Thiago Motta Sampaio

The Language Acquisition, PROcessing and Syntax Lab uses cognitive psychology/psycholinguistics experiments and computer simulation as methods to uncover the processes behind adult language use and language acquisition.

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Funding
FAEPEX 2181/21 (TMS)
FAEPEX 519.292 (TMS)
FAPESP 16/13920-9 (TMS)

​​Research Assistants (TT)
FAPESP 17/06424-8 (TMS/GRF)
FAPESP 18/10008-2 (TMS/TTF)

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Language Acquisition Team Leader
Ruth EV Lopes

Computational Linguistics Team Leader
Pablo PF Faria

Graduate Students 
- Lilian Silva Scher (PhD/CNPq)
Phonic salience & variable agreement
​(CNPq -130414/2019-0)
Dissertação de Mestrado

- Josie Helen Siman (PhD/CNPq)
​Metaphor Processign (CNPq - 140.359/2018-4)

- Thuany T. Figueiredo (PhD/CAPES)
Theory of Mind & Social Cognition (CAPES)
Former Res. Assist. (FAPESP TT3 18/10008-2)
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​- Fernando Luis Sabatin (MA/FAPESP)
Lexical Access
(IC FAPESP - 18/15718-8)
(MA FAPESP - 21/00377-3)
Internship @ Umeå University

- Natalia Araboni
Morphology and Formal Semantics

- Flore Kedochim
Psycholinguistics & left periphery

Undergrad Students
- Thais Almeida da Silva
The history of Speech Language Therapy and Pathology

- Layne Gabriele da Silva
Gender biases in language acquisition

- Caio Graco Rodrigues

Collabs / Coauthors / Co-advisors
- ​Gerard Steen (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Professor of Language & Communication
Co-mentor of Siman's PhD Thesis

- Leonardo Gomes Bernardino (UFU)
Professor of Psychology
Co-mentor of Figueiredo's PhD Thesis

- Virginie van Wassenhove (Neurospin / CEA-Saclay)
Brain Dynamics team leader 

- Aniela Improta França (UFRJ)
Professor of Linguistics (Neuroscience of Language) 
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- Marcus Maia (UFRJ)
Professor of Linguistics (Psycholinguistics)

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Visitors
- Alexandra Rae Lawn (UCLA Language Proc. Lab)
Retrieval of linguistic cues during sentence processing

- Isadora Andrade (UFRJ / CNPq)
Word & face recognition - Acesin Lab

- Julia Cataldo Lopes (UFRJ / CNPq)
Word Processing - Acesin Lab

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Past Members

Grad Students

- Josie Helen Siman (PhD/CNPq)
​Metaphor Processign (CNPq - 140.359/2018-4)

- ​Giovanna Rizzo Fonseca (MA)
Memory & Syntactic Processing (CAPES)
Dissertação de Mestrado
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- Karen Kalil Waldemarin (MA)
Variation of Subjunctive in Braz.Port. (CAPES)
Dissertação de Mestrado

- ​Geane Cássia Alves Sena
Working memory & literacy​
Artigo de qualificação de área

Undergrad Students
​​- Patricia Perina de Oliveira
Agreement Attraction (FAPESP 17/13038-7)​

- Niasche Moraes Aquino Silva
Biolinguistics (FAPESP - 17/24709-0)

- Vitoria Bonuccelli Heringer Lisboa
Stroop Effect

- Bruna Barbosa Louzada
Word Processing