Both our faculty and international partners are at the leading edge of language and learning sciences, with a diversity of perspectives, including linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and speech pathology. Through the current PIRE, we intend to bring brain science to the classroom for children and older learners, investigate diverse language learning environments, and examine the consequences of bilingualism across the lifespan for education and health. This new research direction will increase diversity and impact by bringing language science from the laboratory to practice and by integrating field research with experimentation to provide new data on endangered languages, populations with limited literacy, and the consequences of language contact. Navigate through the links to learn about the individuals that form the current PIRE.
Penn State Faculty
Associate Professor of Education (Curriculum and Instruction)
Director of Human Imaging, Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC)
Professor of Psychology & Linguistics
Head, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Principal Investigator at Penn State
Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Emeritus, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Principal Investigator at the University of California, Irvine
Co-Principal Investigator at Penn State
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Professor of German and Linguistics
Director, Linguistics Program
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Professor of Linguistics and Spanish Linguistics
Co-Director, Center for Language Science
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Co-Principal Investigator at Penn State
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
Penn State Staff
Budget Manager, Center for Language Science and PIRE
UC Irvine Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Language Science
Emeritus, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Principal Investigator at the University of California, Irvine
Co-Principal Investigator at Penn State
Professor, Department of European Languages and Studies
Professor, Departments of Language Science and Cognitive Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Language Science
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
UC Irvine Staff
PIRE Project Manager, UC Irvine
Domestic Partners
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida at Gainesville
Director of Ph.d. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN), Gallaudet University
VL2 Co-Principal Investigator
Distinguished Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratory
Professor of Language and Literacy, University of South Carolina
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Puerto Rico
Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Puerto Rico
Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
Director and Co-PI, Science of Visual Learning, Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2)
Professor of Psychology, Gallaudet University
President and Director of Research, Senior Scientist, Haskins laboratories
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Florida
Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Florida
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Florida
International Partners
Professor of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Senior researcher of Language and Communication, Radboud University
Facultad de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín / Colombia
Professor of Linguistics
Donders Institute at Radboud University
Principle investigator at CLS, Radboud University
Professor of English Linguistics, University of Braunschweig
Professor of Learning and Plasticity, Radboud University Nijmegen
Serena HC Yang Professor in Early Childhood Development and Education
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Radboud University
Professor of Education, Director of the Laboratory for Communication Science, University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor at Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University
Consultants
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Walter Gordon York Research Chair of Lifespan Cognitive Development, York University
Professor of Psychology; Senior Vice Chair in Psychology, UCLA
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Professor of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Professor of Linguistics, University of Sonora, Mexico
Distinguished Professor of Education (Educational Psychology) at Penn State
Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow
Professor of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, the University of Pittsburgh
Director of the Learning Research and Development Center
Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Director, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, University of New Mexico
UCSD Center for Human Development
Board of Governors Professor in Neuroscience, Rutgers University
Director of Scientific Learning Corporation
Former PIRE Faculty
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Assistant Professor and the Director of the Linguistics Program
University of California at Riverside
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Co-Principal Investigator at Penn State
Assistant Research Psychologist, University of California at Riverside
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, College of the Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of California at Riverside
Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Junior Professor of German as a Foreign Language, Oldenburg University
Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Board director for the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences - National Academy of Sciences
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California at Riverside