CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast Featuring Dr. Gary LupyanCISLL is excited to share its second episode of CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast! Our guest speaker is Dr. Gary Lupyan. The co-hosts, CISLL graduate assistant Megan Andrzejewski, and content expert Dr. Lindsay Harris, join Dr. Lupyan.Dr. Lindsay Harris is an associate professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include reading across writing systems and sensory modalities, individual differences in lexical knowledge, and language and reading development in blind individuals.Dr. Gary Lupyan is a professor and the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area Group Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also runs the Lupyan lab at the university. His research interests include understanding the effects of language on cognition and perception.

CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast Featuring Jennifer KrizmanCISLL is excited to share its first installment of our new podcast: CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast. Our first guest: Jennifer Krizman! Dr. Krizman is joined by co-hosts Emma Apicella and Milijana Buac. Milijana Buac is an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include typical and atypical bilingual language development with a focus on environmental factors, cognitive development in bilingual children with and without developmental disabilities, and evidence based, bias-free, assessment and intervention approaches for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Jennifer Krizman is a research associate professor at Northwestern University. She studies how biology and experience influence the auditory, cognitive, and linguistic processes listeners engage to understand speech in everyday settings. To study this, she uses the frequency-following response, an objective electrophysiological measure of auditory processing, together with behavioral assessments of executive, language and listening abilities. Her work focuses on how language experience, such as the number of languages a person speaks, influences speech understanding. The aim of her research is to improve human communication.