The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences proudly announces the 2024 Summer Graduate Research Awardees. 

A main focus of the Center is supporting student research across the Ohio State University. Through our annual graduate award program, we fund summer research for a select group of graduate students who demonstrate academic excellence in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. This program produces cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collaboration and serves as a valuable financial resource for our graduate community.
 
The Center received many excellent proposals during the 2024 cycle and we thank each applicant for their time and efforts. Congratulations to the following students who were awarded funding through the summer term.

Ada Lamba

Project Title: Curating a Large Dataset for Predicting Word-Level Speech Intelligibility of Real-World Recordings

Home Department: Computer Science Engineering, advised by Dr. Donald Williamson

Visiting Department: Speech and Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Sarah Yoho Leopold

Alyssa Allen

Project Title: Spanish/English Bilingual Speaker Phonetic Alignment to Machine Interlocutors

Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler

Visiting Department: Spanish & Portuguese, advised by Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza

Amy Chun

Project Title: Adaptive User Engagement in Interactive Dialogue Systems with Large Language Models and Reinforcement

Home Department: Computer Science Engineering, advised by Dr. Andrew Perrault

Visiting Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Michael White

Izabela Jamsek

Project Title: Parental Sensitivity, Intrusiveness, and Child Language: Effects of Child Hearing Status and Time

Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Rachael Frush Holt

Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

Jane Hu

Project Title: Mapping Believes and Attitudes underlying Public Opinions: Hilbert Space Multi-Dimensional Theory 

Home Department: Communication, advised by Dr. Zheng Joyce Wang

Visiting Department: Political Science, advised by Dr. Alexander Wendt

Pedro Antonio Ortiz Ramírez

Project Title: Inhibitory control and vocabulary size differentially predicting scalar implicatures in monolingual and bilingual children.

Home Department: Spanish & Portuguese, advised by Dr. John Grinstead

Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

Victoria Sevich

Project Title: The contribution of voice cue weighting to speech perception in adults with cochlear implants

Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Janet Weisenberger

Visiting Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Cynthia Clopper

Learn more about the program and awardees here: https://cog.osu.edu/ccbs-summer-graduate-research-award-about