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.

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

Sentence superiority in the reading brain

When a sequence of written words is briefly presented and participants are asked to identify just one word at a post-cued location, …
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Sentence superiority in the reading brain

Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

When human and non-human animals learn sequences, they manage to implicitly extract statistical regularities through associative …
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Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency

Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we …
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Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency

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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Recent Publications

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Sentence superiority in the reading brain

When a sequence of written words is briefly presented and participants are asked to identify just one word at a post-cued location, …
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Sentence superiority in the reading brain

Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

When human and non-human animals learn sequences, they manage to implicitly extract statistical regularities through associative …
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Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish

Amidst social changes in gendered language use, there is pushback from institutions such as the Spanish Royal Academy, which claims …
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Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish
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Topics

animal cognition aphasia associative learning baboons bilingualism co-registration comparative cognition EEG English eye tracking fixation related potentials French language linguistics negation negative concord parallel processing reading statistical learning syntax