I am interested in how experience with language affects cognition in the form of memory and perception. I am investigating language processing in healthy adults (monolingual and bilingual), language acquisition in children, and language loss in patients with aphasia. To this end, I am using interdisciplinary methods from experimental psychology, the neurosciences, and linguistics.
Research topics include: reading processes, language processing and representation in lexical memory (sublexical and lexical units), idioms and metaphors, abstract versus concrete words, sentence processing in literal versus figurative language, language asymmetries in the cerebral hemispheres.