"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 (sub-lexical and lexical units), idioms and metaphors, abstract versus concrete words, sentence processing in literal versus figurative language, language asymmetries in the cerebral hemispheres.
