Lab Members

If you have any questions or if you are interested in joining the lab, please contact Andrés Buxó-Lugo at buxolugo@buffalo.edu.

Six members of the lab
Jun Luong, Maanya Misra, Sarah MacDougall, Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Raionna Nickens, and Marzieh Samimifar.

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.

Undergraduate Honors Students

  • Matthew Proy

Undergraduate Research Assistants

  • Raionna Nickens
  • Jun Luong
  • Maanya Misra
  • Cate Archibald

Collaborators

  • Cass Jacobs (Linguistics)

Lab Alumni

  • Victoria Travis
  • Joey Favara
  • Ryan James
  • Noor Al-Khaouli
  • Dalila Dubón
  • Siman Lin
  • Sulata Goswami
  • Gianina Persichini
  • Lihui De