Lab Members

Meet the team!


Faculty

Joe Joseph Toscano, Ph.D., Principal Investigator. Joe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Villanova and Director of the WRAP Lab. He received his B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester in 2005 and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2011. From 2011-2014, he was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on questions about language comprehension and speech perception.

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Munson Toscano, Ph.D. Cheyenne is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Villanova. She also received her Ph.D. from Iowa, and she completed her undergraduate work at Oberlin College. Prior to joining the department at Villanova, Cheyenne was a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cheyenne's research focuses on perceptual learning in speech and developmental language disorder.

Grad students


Mariah

Mariah Lees, Lab Manager. Mariah is a second-year Master’s student studying perception and cognition broadly, with a special interest in the process of prediction. Mariah has a strong foundation in studying cognition that includes previous research experience in visual attention and long-term memory, both at Goucher College. She plans to pursue doctoral work after graduating from Villanova.

Dani

Danielle Buckley. Danielle is a first-year grad student in the lab. More coming soon!

Amy

Amy Kennedy. Amy is a first-year graduate student in the Psychology M.S. program at Villanova. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biological Sciences and a minor in Spanish. She is interested in creating computational models based on biological neural networks to study speech perception. She is also interested in second language learning and loves to run, follow tennis, and learn new languages.

Rose

Rose Dietrich. Rose is a grad student in Villanova's Psychology M.S. program. She graduated from Wilkes University in 2021 with a B.A. in Neuroscience and Psychology. While there, she was involved in several research projects, including work examining Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury in mouse models. She is interested in haptic and auditory perception and hopes to use findings from her research to help clinical populations.

Anne Marie

Anne Marie Crinnion. Anne Marie started working in the WRAP Lab during Summer 2016. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. She's interested in computational modeling, especially when applied to speech categorization. When she's not thinking about Steiner trees, she loves cycling, running, and listening to country music.

Undergraduates



Christana Archer. Christana joined the lab in 2023. More coming soon!


Lucia Diaz. Lucia joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Diya Dudhia. Diya joined the lab in 2023.More coming soon!


Emma Karn. Emma joined the lab in 2024.em>More coming soon!


Nikhy Nath. Nikhy joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Tumi Ojo. Tumi joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Madison Romano. Madison joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Sassy Saleeby. Sassy joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Kaylee Tate. Kaylee joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!


Sam Unger. Kaylee joined the lab in 2024.More coming soon!

WARP Lab kids

kids Ellis, Kent, and Susan Toscano. This is our team focused on a long-term study of cognitive development! You can often find them together, playing Minecraft of other games, reading, writing, drawing, or camping and hiking. Stay tuned for more from them in the years to come!

Alumni

Post Docs
Nikole Giovannone (2023-2024)
McCall Sarrett (2021-2023)
Laura Getz (2016-2019)
Grad students
Harini Sankar (2022-2024)
Reet Patel (2022-2024)
Ryan Henderson (2021-2024)
Sam Sinemus (2020-2024)
Grace Gervino (2021-2023)
Alexa Gonzalez (2020-2022)
Jenah Black (2019-2021)
Siyu Lin (2019-2021)
Jake Leonard (2018-2020)
Emily Martinez (2018-2020)
Andrea Ruggiero (2018-2020)
Sofía Cordero (2017-2018)
Agnes Gao (2017-2019)
Abby Benecke (2016-2018)
Zach Oxford-Romeike (2016-2018)
Courtney Thomas (2016-2018)
Ben Falandays (2015-2017)
Elke Nordeen (2015-2017)
Jordan Rast (2015-2017)
Stephanie Vicari (2015-2017)
Sarah Vrabic (2015-2017)
Tifani Biro (2014-2016)
Beach Brooks (2014-2016)
Taylor Curley (2014-2015)
Emma Folk (2014-2016)
Rebecca Garrison (2014-2016)
Olivia Pereira (2014-2016)
Dave Saltzman (2014-2016)
Brad Stilwell (2014-2016)
Lexie Tabachnick (2014-2016)
Undergraduates
Izzie Ramirez (2024)
Tatum Calabrese (2022-2024)
Bella Lentini (2022-2024)
Tia Miller (2022-2024)
Kaite Simpson (2023-2024)
Isabelle Jacowleff (2023)
Shi-Chiao Tsao (2022-2023)
Aaliyah Bullen (2022-2023)
Jennifer Attah-Gyamfi (2022-2023)
Aisling Maguire (2021-2023)
Olivia Montañez (2022-2023)
Elise Pelletier (2022-2023)
Ander Swartz (2020-2023)
Joshua Tsai (2021-2023)
Owen Saad (2021-2022)
Annie DiRenzo (2019-2022)
Lili DeFilippis (2021-2022)
Elise Miller (2020-2022)
Maeve Schumacher (2020-2022)
Lizzy Wolfe (2020-2022)
Stephanie Humen (2019-2021)
Amogh Bharadwaj (2019-2020)
Charli White (2019-2020)
Victoria Primiano (2019-2020)
Jesse Zimmerman (2018-2020)
Julie Capece (2018-2020)
Kayla Adornetto (2019-2020)
Ani Javardian (2018-2020)
Gwen Saccocia (2016-2020)
Nabiha Shahid (2016-2020)
Nicole Feeley (2017-2019)
Caroline Lee (2017-2019)
Katie French (2016-2019)
Olivia Hacker (2018-2019)
Jocelyn Rego (2018-2019)
Chris Burley (2014-2016)
Thea Callen (2018-2019)
Cara Colao (2017-2018)
Dylan Ashbach (2017)
Jackie Coelho (2015-2016)
Liz Day (2016-2018)
Brandon Henken (Summer 2015)
Nicole Johnson (2015-2017)
Mackenzie Jorgensen (2017)
John Michael Kay (2015-2016)
Grace Kerrigan (2014-2015)
Claire McCann (2016-2017)
Christina Nashed (2016-2017)
Marissa Osowski (2017)
Jesse Pazdera (2015-2016)
Marissa Pharel (2016-2017)
Janice Puder (2016-2018)
Tyler Re (2014-2015)
Rakshana Selvarajan (2015-2018)
Emily Tenuta (2016-2017)
Pankhuri Walia (2017-2018)
Sarah Welch (2016-2017)
Carlin Welter (2016-2017)
Martina Vega (2015-2017)


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