Language as a window to human learning and cognition

I am a psycholinguist and cognitive psychologist, specializing in how language experience shapes processing and literacy development. My research explores what children and adults read and talk about, and how these experiences influence language production and comprehension. I also investigate how language contributes to the formation and expression of sociocultural representations, such as gender and emotions.

My research is interdisciplinary, combining (1) psychological experiments using paradigms from word learning and sentence processing, (2) corpus linguistics employing Natural Language Processing techniques, and (3) computational modelling using neural network approaches.

I am currently based at the University of Reading. I taught and conducted research at the University of Birmingham, the University of Oxford, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. If you are interested in my research or pursuing Ph.D. studies with me, you can get in touch via email