About Me
I am an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in Linguistics, a Postgraduate Researcher in Computer Science and the Psycholinguistics Lab Manager at The University of Manchester (UK).
Broadly speaking, I'm interested in the way in which people get meaning when they read. My work falls into two main strands:
- The use of behavioural methods like semantic priming, eye-tracking, and reading time measures to 'get at' some of the hidden cognitive processes that are at play when we read.
- Developing mechanistic processing models that adequately account for human behaviour while also capturing theoretically relevant insights from formal linguistics and computation theory.
More specifically, I'm interested in quantification. For instance, when we read sentences like every beach looked beautiful, how (and when) do we combine the meanings of each word to give us the full meaning of the sentence? And what kinds of representations are being dealt with? While this may seem trivial to native speakers, it is largely an open question as to how this happens.
To find out more about me, take a look at my CV or my Slides & Posters. You may also be interested in my Free Materials.
