Jeanne Gallée
Jeanne Gallée is a postdoctoral scholar and licensed speech-language pathologist in the Cognition & Cortical Dynamics Laboratory at I-LABS. She received her doctorate at Harvard and concurrently completed all clinical coursework and training in speech-language pathology at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Here, her passion for the provision of person-centered care for rare and language-led frontotemporal dementias, such as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), began.
Her research works to establish inclusive and representative models of communication that can account for the variety of language experiences that a speaker may have and how these can give rise to mechanisms of language function and dysfunction.
With Dr. Chantel Prat, she is working to build upon current behavioral models with neurobiological investigations to better characterize the neural mechanisms supporting processes of language (re)-learning while accounting for individual differences. Outside of her research, Jeanne is actively engaged in the National Aphasia Association’s newly formed PPA Task Force and can be found facilitating bi-monthly support groups.
Alumni:
Kinsey Bice
Kinsey’s research focuses on how individual differences in people’s brains reflect cumulative past experiences, especially related to bilingualism and language learning, and how those differences can be used to predict new learning or can be changed by learning. She completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a dual-title in Language Sciences at Pennsylvania State University where she worked with Judith Kroll to examine how the brain supports bilingual language use and new language learning using EEGs. She received funding from the William Orr Dingwall Neurolinguistics Fellowship and from the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award to complete her dissertation project on the dynamics of language processing and new language learning in bilinguals and monolinguals. At I-LABS, she is supported by the University of Washington Institute for Neuroengineering and Washington Research Foundation Funds for Innovation in Neuroengineering for a project that identifies optimal brain states for new language learning and then uses different methods of manipulating brain activity (neurofeedback training, tDCS) to coerce learners’ brains into those states.
Website: kinseybice.com
Jeff MacInnes
Jeff’s work focuses on developing innovative tools that challenge the constraints of traditional experimental methodology, and using those tools to investigate novel questions about brain and behavior. He completed his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at Duke University working with Alison Adcock to study the effects of neurofeedback training on reward and memory networks. As part of this research, he developed novel methodologies for accessing and analyzing fMRI data in real-time. At the University of Washington, he is supported by a Keck Foundation grant to continue advancing neuroimaging methods and has developed an open source software package to support real-time fMRI across multiple scanning environments and experimental paradigms. Using this approach, he and the team and UW are developing the first fMRI-based direct brain to brain interfaces in humans.
Website: www.jeffmacinnes.com/
