People

Lena is a cognitive scientist working at the intersection of pragmatics, turn-taking in conversation, and linguistic prediction. She recently graduated with her PhD in Cognitive Science and Psychology from Tufts University in 2024. During her PhD, she worked with JP de Ruiter, investigating how our...

Neil's work investigates the similarities between the comprehension of drawing and sequential images with that of language. In particular, his research asks "how does the mind/brain create meaning out of sequences of images?" Neil has proposed that, analogous to the structure of sentences, sequences...

Martin was a doctoral candidate at the Kuperberg Lab, and is now working as a Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Amishi Jha's Lab at the University of Miami.

I graduated from Tufts in 2012 with a B.S. in biopsychology and music. I then spent a year as a research assistant for Dr. Ellen Lau at the University of Maryland, working on ERP, MEG, and fMRI studies of language processing. My current research with Dr. Kuperberg and Dr. Ani Patel focuses on the...

I joined the Kuperberg Lab in 2009 as a research assistant, and then went on complete my PhD here. I have broad interests in social psychology, cognitive science, and (social and cognitive) neuroscience. My current work primarily explores how event-related potentials (ERP) and paradigms from...

I joined the Kuperberg Lab in 2009 as a PhD student. My primary areas of emphasis have been language, emotion, and schizophrenia, and I have a strong interest in data science and statistics. I am particularly interested in how the meaning of an utterance, particularly personally or emotionally...

Dr. Tali Ditman received her BA and MA from Binghamton University and her PhD from Tufts University under the guidance of Drs. Phillip Holcomb and Gina Kuperberg. Her dissertation work, which was partially supported by an APA Dissertation Research Award, used EEG/ERPs to examine the interaction...

Lena is a cognitive scientist working at the intersection of pragmatics, turn-taking in conversation, and linguistic prediction. She recently graduated with her PhD in Cognitive Science and Psychology from Tufts University in 2024. During her PhD, she worked with JP de Ruiter, investigating how our...