I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Division of Speech-Language Pathology, at New York Medical College. I am also an affiliated scientist at Haskins Laboratories (Yale University). I serve as an Associate Editor for the Language Communication special section of Frontiers in Communication and as a Review Editor for Psycholinguistics, special section of Frontiers in Language Sciences. At New York Medical College, I direct the Psycholinguistics Laboratory. The laboratory is equipped with an EyeLink 1000 plus eye tracker and an actiCHamp EEG system (Brain Products GmbH).
Before joining New York Medical College, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama. Prior to that, I had the privilege of working as a post-doctoral researcher with some amazing people. Initially, I was at Haskins Laboratories under the mentorship of Dr. Julie Van Dyke, Dr. Nicole Landi, and Dr. Julia Irwin. Subsequently, I worked at the University of Georgia (UGA) under the guidance of Dr. John Hale. I earned my PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York (CUNY) under the supervision of Dr. Klara Marton.
I am a psycholinguist. My research seeks to understand how the cognitive architecture constrains speech and language processing. I am interested in the role that memory mechanisms and probabilistic expectations play in speech and language processing in typical and atypical populations.