Ethan Kutlu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biography
Ethan is a psycholinguist and the principal investigator of the Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (https://s-cube.lab.uiowa.edu/). He earned his master’s degree in Cognitive Science at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Florida. Ethan completed his National Science Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa’s Psychological and Brain Sciences department. Ethan’s work is grounded in the perceptual and social experiences of linguistically diverse individuals and their underlying neural and behavioral mechanisms. He is particularly interested in how speech perception is shaped by ecological factors (attitudes towards linguistic diversity in a specific location), personal social network diversity, and individual factors (experience with linguistic diversity, and age). Ethan uses a variety of methodologies such as eye tracking, electroencephalography, and network science tools to explore the crossroads of language, cognition, and the society. Ethan’s work has been funded by different grant agencies such the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. Ethan currently serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psycholinguistics and serves as an Associate Editor for Applied Psycholinguistics and Frontiers in Psychology. He co-founded the ROLE Collective (Reframing our language experience) (www.rolecollective.org). This collective works towards addressing linguistic inequalities in different systems such as research and education.
Ethan is actively recruiting PhD students.
Research interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonology
- Speech perception
- Multilingualism
- Network science
Research or Clinical Areas
- Speech and Language
