I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow at McMaster University working with Christian Brodbeck in the Brodbeck Lab. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in the Linguistics Department at NYU where I studied under Liina Pylkkänen in the NeLLab. My dissertation used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investgiate the complex series of computations that occur in the brain when presented multiple words at the same time. You can find my CV here.

Ongoing Projects

Continuous Speech Processing in Aging

My current postdoctoral research focuses on context use in continuous speech, including how it changes with age and interacts with hearing loss. This work is part of an NIH-funded project led by Christian Brodbeck.

Ambiguity is a pervasive property of natural language, and one example of this can be seen by how the speech signal associated with a phrase or sentence can be ambiguous between multiple meanings. This ambiguity can be made even more difficult to disentangle in the presence of background noise or if you suffer from hearing loss. Typically, people can resolve ambiguity in the speech signal by relying on the context in order to fill in the gaps. The goal of this project is developing and testing explicit models of context use in continuous speech, how context use changes with age, and how it interacts with hearing loss.