Kelsie Lopez
Kelsie (she/her/hers) received an A.B. in Psychology from Brown University in 2020, completing a senior thesis examining children’s computation of scalar implicatures. She spent the next two years as a Research Assistant in the PINE Lab before becoming a graduate student in 2022. Kelsie is broadly interested in studying the effects of early adverse life events on later language outcomes by measuring both behavior and sensitive period timing in the brain. In addition, she is interested in investigating how music heard during different stages of development can be used as a tool for resiliency and stress regulation in the face of adverse events. Outside of research, you can find Kelsie running through the streets of Boston, going to shows and exploring new music, honing her cooking skills, and taking way too many pictures of her very photogenic cat, Monroe.