Meet the Team
Principle Investigator
Zenzi Griffin, PhD
Professor and Researcher
Dr. Griffin is head of the Cognition and Communication Lab. She received her PhD in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She is interested in the cognitive processes that allow people to speak.
Graduate Students
Fatemeh Soleimani
PhD Student
Fatemeh is a PhD student in the French department, and she is working on metaphor comprehension from a psycholinguistic point of view. More specifically, she wants to know how people interpret a surreal poem and how they map different concepts.
