Holly Zaharchuk
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Language and Brain Lab at University of Connecticut
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Education:
B.A. in Psychology, minor in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2015)
Ph.D. in Psychology and Language Science, with a Specialization in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, The Pennsylvania State University
Biography:
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Brain Lab at the University of Connecticut (PI: Dr. Emily Myers). I use a combination of neuroimaging (fMRI), neuromodulation (TMS), and behavioral methods (including eye-tracking) to study how right and left temporal regions contribute to speech perception. The goal is to understand how therapeutic interventions might recruit these brain areas in the successful remediation of stroke. Overall, I am interested in how the perceptual system adapts to variation and change.
