I am a huge fan of EEG.
I often introduce myself as “an EEG guy”. I served as lab manager for Arild Hestvik’s Experimental Psycholinguistics Lab at the University of Delaware, where we ran ERP studies on everything related to language processing – from speech perception to sentence processing to learning.
My research interests are broad, but can be summarized with a few questions: (1) what are the computations the mind performs with respect to language? (2) why these computations, and not some other?
These are some of the research projects I’m involved in.
Phonetic and phonemic representation
Investigations into how the brain represents speech sounds and how auditory prediction is modulated by category knowledge.
Complexity and learnability
Assessing predictions from computational learning theory in the laboratory.
Sentence Processing ERPs
Using ERPs like N400 and P600 to investigate the processing of syntactic structures including negation and topicalization.