At UTILISE we are comitted to contributing to the scientific knowledge base. We also believe it is important to foster an environment where existing and aspiring researchers can learn, explore their areas of interest, and develop useful, transferrable skills for future projects that will further broaden the horizons of aphasia research. So, the team has expanded by two! We would love to introduce you to our interns; Ariel and Sonia.
Ziqian Xu - Ariel
I'm an intern in the UTILISE Project. I'm currently studying psychology and language sciences as an undergraduate at UCL.
I'm interested in the neural mechanisms of syntactic and semantic integration, visual attention, and number sense.
Sonia Mariotti
I recently graduated from the MSc Language Sciences (Neuroscience, Language and Communication) at UCL. I have a keen interest in acquired communication difficulties in older adults. I researched discourse production in aphasia under the supervision of Rosemary Varley. My project employed topic modelling to investigate the relationship between micro and macrolinguistic levels of language processing within a usage-based framework.
I previously studied Linguistics and Language Teaching in my BA at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.