Biography

I’m a PhD student in Language Science at the University of California, Irvine. I’m generally interested in how language–particularly syntax–is stored, structured, and processed in the brain. My main question is whether sentence production and comprehension rely on identical, distinct, or partially shared neural systems. I use a mixed-methods approach which involves a combination of quantitative, qualitative, computational, and neuroimaging methods. I am advised by Greg Hickok at UC Irvine, and William Matchin at the University of South Carolina.

I am looking for postdoc positions in the cognitive neurobiology of language to start Fall 2025. If you think that I would be a good fit for your lab, please send me an email!

Interests

  • Syntactic deficits in aphasia
  • Sentence production
  • Neurobiology of syntactic processing
  • Open science

Education

  • PhD in Language Science, 2025 (Anticipated)

    University of California, Irvine

  • MA in Language Science, 2023

    University of California, Irvine

  • MSc in Cognitive Sciences, 2019

    Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris

  • BA in Linguistics and French, 2016

    Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Featured Publications

Aligning psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and aphasiology with respect to grammatical encoding

The influential model of sentence production developed by Bock and Levelt (1994) posits two stages of grammatical encoding: functional …
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Aligning psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and aphasiology with respect to grammatical encoding

An objective coding scheme for grammatical production deficits in aphasia reveals a categorical divide between agrammatism and paragrammatism

Syntactic impairments in aphasia can provide a powerful window into the neurobiology of language. Considerable research has focused on …
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An objective coding scheme for grammatical production deficits in aphasia reveals a categorical divide between agrammatism and paragrammatism

The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, …
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The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Research

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Language lateralization

Is language really as left-lateralized as we think?
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Language production in aphasia

How is language production impacted by brain damage?
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Language production in aphasia

Syntactic parallelism

Do expressive syntactic deficits predict receptive deficits?
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Aligning psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and aphasiology with respect to grammatical encoding

The influential model of sentence production developed by Bock and Levelt (1994) posits two stages of grammatical encoding: functional …
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Aligning psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and aphasiology with respect to grammatical encoding

An objective coding scheme for grammatical production deficits in aphasia reveals a categorical divide between agrammatism and paragrammatism

Syntactic impairments in aphasia can provide a powerful window into the neurobiology of language. Considerable research has focused on …
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An objective coding scheme for grammatical production deficits in aphasia reveals a categorical divide between agrammatism and paragrammatism

The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, …
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The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis
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Topics

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