People
Eric S. Jackson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Principal Investigator
Dr. Eric S. Jackson is a clinician-scientist and director of the stuttering and vvariability (savvy) lab at NYU. His research examines the variability of stuttering events (i.e., the inconsistency with which stuttering events occur) and the factors that drive variability including social-cognitive processing and…
Courtney Margulis, M.S., CCC-SLP
Doctoral Student
Courtney Margulis is a doctoral student in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU. Her research is focused on examining how social perception influences stuttering variability. She received an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Maryland where she completed a thesis on lexical diversity in children who…
Haley Warner, M.S., CCC-SLP
Doctoral Student
Haley is a doctoral student in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department at NYU. Her current research examines how linguistic factors and communicative pressures influence the variability of stuttering events. Haley joined the savvy lab in 2018 as a master’s student at NYU. She completed her…
Joan Orpella, Ph.D.
Research Affiliate
Joan Orpella is a former professional violinist who transitioned to psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2019 from the University of Barcelona, where he worked with Dr. Ruth de Diego-Balaguer on the neurocomputational bases of language statistical learning. Joan continued this work as a…