Tori Sharpe, PhD

Tori joined the lab in 2017. She graduated in 2015 from the University of South Carolina Honors College, where she spent 3 1/2 years in Dr. Dirk den Ouden’s Neurolinguistics Lab, working on behavioral and fMRI studies of language processing. After graduation, she spent 2 years as a full-time research assistant at the NYU Neuroscience of Language Lab, using MEG to investigate aspects of form typicality and syntactic prediction in English. In Dr. Kuperberg’s lab, she plans to continue her research on neurolinguistic processing, with emphasis on interactions with emotion and neuropsychiatric disorders.