Current Researchers

Tamiko Azuma, Ph.D.
Lab Director

Associate Professor
Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Coor Hall 3476

Research Interests: Working memory, episodic memory, memory errors, and semantic processing in young adults, older adults, and individuals with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and Parkinsons disease

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    • Mike Tat
    Doctoral Research Assistant

    Department of Speech and Hearing Science

    Coor Hall 2222

    Research Interests: Visual word processing, hemispheric specialization, processing of misspellings

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    Ileana Ratiu, M.S.
    Doctoral Research Assistant

    Department of Speech and Hearing Science

    Coor Hall 3481

    Research Interests: Memory and language in French-English and Spanish-English bilinguals

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    Student Research Assistants

    Department of Speech and Hearing Science

    Coor Hall 3475

    Melanie Howarth
    Megan Hinz
    Lindsay Miller
    Rachel Thomas
    Kira Hawkins

    Research Collaborators

    Julie Liss, PhD

    Department of Speech and Hearing Science, ASU
    Motor Speech Disorders Lab


    Steve Goldinger, PhD
    Department of Psychology, ASU
    Memory and Language Lab


    Yu-kyong Choe, PhD

    Department of Communication Disorders
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst


    Teresa Cardon, PhD

    Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
    Washington State University, Spokane

    Previous Lab Researchers (partial list)

    Emily Padilla
    Barrett Honors Student

    Honors Thesis: Changing Your Mind: The Effect of Attentional Demands on Change Blindness in Reading

    Presented at: The Honors Symposium of Research and Creative Projects, April 2011
    Graduated: May 2011

    Elizabeth Hsiung
    Barrett Honors Student

    Honors Thesis: Simulating Autism-Like Distractions in a Reading Comprehension Task
    Graduated: May 2011

    Jenel Murray
    NIH Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program Scholar

    Research Project: The Effect of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease on the Production of Inferences
    Duration: August 2010-May 2011

    Emily Wirth
    School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Researcher

    Project Title: Control Yourself! Word Frequency and Working Memory Span Effects on Controlled Mental Suppression

    Presented at: SOLS Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium 2008
    Graduated: May 2008

    Emily Solchenberger
    School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Researcher

    In One Ear, Out the Other: Selective Attention and Its Relation to Source Memory

    Presented at: SOLS Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium 2008
    Graduated: May 2008

    Ann Hickox
    Barrett Honors Student

    Honors Thesis: Who Said That? Investigating the Effects of Language and Familiarity on Speaker Recognition
    Graduated: May 2006