People

Ellen's research focuses on language comprehension, and she has a particular interest in the role of prediction in sentence processing. She received her BS in Psychology from Michigan State University, where she worked with Fernanda Ferreira, and her PhD in Linguistics from the University of...

How are word meanings different from concepts? How is efficient sentence comprehension achieved? And what happens when it breaks down? My research uses methods and techniques from psycholinguistics, development and cognitive neuroscience to illuminate issues in semantic interpretation that are not...

Kirsten's research in the NeuroCognition Lab focused on language production as well as semantic processing in healthy adults and patients with schizophrenia. For the latter she was involved in a project combining EEG, MEG and fMRI data. She received her BSc in Cognitive Science from the University...

Einat's research is aimed at understanding how people learn and understand language. She uses neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study the mental representations and mechanisms adults and children use during language comprehension, focusing on the sentence and discourse level. As a post-doc at...

Bram Vandekerckhove's research interests include computational models of (psycho-) linguistic processes at the syntax-semantics interface, corpus linguistics, and distributional semantics. He graduated from the University of Antwerp in Belgium with a PhD in linguistics, under the supervision of...

Eddie's research probes the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support creating meaning from everyday language. His work focuses on understanding how and when the brain uses context predictively. A long standing interest is uncovering how the two cerebral hemispheres each contribute to normal...

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...

Meredith is interested in the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie rapid, probabilistic, and flexible effects of linguistic context on the dynamics of spoken language understanding. Her doctoral research at the University of Rochester used eye-tracking and other behavioral methods to...

I joined the Kuperberg Lab in 2016. To know a language is to use one's past linguistic experience to form expectations about future linguistic experience. This process is mediated by both speakers' stored representations of their previous experience, and the online procedures used to process new...

I joined the Kuperberg lab in 2016. I am interested in the neural mechanisms involved in language comprehension as well as language production (and the overlap between these), taking into account how context influences these processes. I have a special interest in how predictive mechanims influence...