Principal Investigator
Andrés Buxó-Lugo
Andrés (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo. He is interested in the cognitive processes that allow us to produce, comprehend, and learn language. His research focuses on how different levels of linguistic representation combine to form a message.
Graduate Students
Sarah MacDougall
Sarah joined the psychology department in fall 2024 after finishing her master’s degree in linguistics (also at UB). Her interests include semantic categorization, language perception (and production, and propagation), and generally anything involving language and cognition. When not antagonizing her advisor, Sarah enjoys playing and watching live music, skateboarding, doing crafty things, improving at MarioKart, and following baseball (sometimes). She welcomes any music recommendations that would interrupt her ten-year streak of playing the same playlists over and over again.
Marzieh Samimifar
Marzieh is a PhD student in Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics at the University at Buffalo. She is interested in bilingualism and language development and the processes involved in speech perception in general. Currently, her research focuses on word recognition in adults and toddlers under varying noise conditions.