Talking Brains: Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse to join UCI faculty

Friday, June 8, 2007

Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse to join UCI faculty

Linguistics as UC Irvine -- A.K.A. UC OC -- just got a huge boost with two new faculty, Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse, both products of Maryland Linguistics. Lisa and Jon will join the Department of Cognitive Sciences effective July 1, and will form part of the core of a new proposed Center for Language Science. We will be teaching them both how to surf shortly after their arrival.

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David Poeppel said...: Hey, you UCI folks are lucky! Lisa and Jon are wonderful. I hope you make a big center -- and then invite me often for talks :-)

I'm happy to report that my former grad student Ana Gouvea got a job this year as well, in Miami (where she lives, conveniently), at Florida International University.

In fact, it was a great year for Maryland Ph.D.s and post-docs -- lots of people got great positions. Pretty great, that.; June 12, 2007 at 4:49 PM

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Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and author of The Myth of Mirror Neurons. David Poeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.