Elissa Newport, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, GUMC and MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital
George Bergeron Professor, Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, GUMC
Dr. Newport runs the Learning and Development Lab, which studies the acquisition of language, the relationship between language acquisition and language structure, and the Pediatric Stroke Research Project, which studies the recovery of language after damage to the brain early in life.
Dr. Newport has been recognized by a number of organizations for the impact of her theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of language acquisition. She has been elected as a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Cognitive Science Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the McDonnell Foundation, and the Packard Foundation. In 2013 she received the William James Lifetime Achievement Award for Basic Research from the Association for Psychological Science, in 2015 she received the Franklin Medal for Computer and Cognitive Science from the Benjamin Franklin Institute, in 2018 she received the Norman A. Anderson Lifetime Achievement award from the Society for Experimental Psychology, and in 2020 she received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award from the American Psychological Association.
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Previous faculty appointments
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Contact Info
Building D, Suite 145, Room 155 - eln10@georgetown.edu