Biography
Jeremy Yeaton is a PhD student in Language Science at the University of California, Irvine. They’re generally interested in how language is stored, structured, and processed in the brain. This includes a variety of topics and methods including neuroimaging, behavioral experiments, and computational modelling.
Interests
- Language processing
- Cognitive neuroscience of language
- Cognitive modelling
- Open science
Education
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PhD in Language Science, 2025 (Anticipated)
University of California, Irvine
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MSc in Cognitive Sciences, 2019
Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris
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BA in Linguistics and French, 2016
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Research
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Language production in aphasia
How is language impacted by brain damage?
Statistical learning in noise
How does noise impact sequence learning in baboons?
Parallel processing in reading
How can we understand reading as a parallel rather than serial process?
Ambiguity in negative dependencies
How do we separate I didn’t do nothing from I didn’t do nothing?
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Simple questions on simple associations: Regularity extraction in Papio papio
While associative learning has been studied for decades, the focus has tended to be on longer sequences. In this work, we conducted a …
Recent Publications
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Positional cueing, string location variability, and letter-in-string identification
In three Experiments we measured accuracy in identifying a single letter among a string of five briefly presented consonants followed …
The prosody of French ambiguous multiple negative sentences
While it has long been assumed that prosody can help resolve syntactic and semantic ambiguities, empirical evidence has shown that the …
