Stefanie Kuchinsky
Associate Graduate Faculty, SLA, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Graduate Faculty, Second Language Acquisition
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
Stefanie Kuchinsky (PhD in Psychology, University of Illinois) is a Research Investigator in the Audiology and Speech Pathology Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She is a faculty affiliate at the University of Maryland, where she previously held a position as a Research Assistant Professor. She uses behavioral, pupillometry, and neuroimaging methods to investigate the sensory and attention systems that support speech understanding. A major focus of her work is on using objective measures of cognitive effort to more comprehensively assess and remediate the challenges that people face during communication in adverse listening conditions.