Introduction

I’m an associate professor in Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi (nyuad), with affiliations in Biology (nyuad), Psychology and Linguistics (nyu).

My work focuses on different aspects of language processing, such as how we perceive speech, how we retrieve words when hearing speech or reading, and how we parse and understand sentences.

I am particularly interested in how the language system communicates with our perceptual and memory systems, and I use neuroimaging methods extensively in my research.

I am also very fond of pursuing theoretically motivated cross-linguistic work, having worked or currently pursuing work on American Sign Language, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Modern Standard Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Mandarin, Nepali and Russian.

Background

• PhD, Linguistics, 2009, University of Maryland, College Park

• MA, Cognitive Science, 2003, Ecole Normale Superieure (ens) & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (ehess)

• BA, Languages and Literature, 2002, Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro (puc-rio)