Biography

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Cognition and Brain Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously, I was a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, and before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at HRL Laboratories.

I am primarily interested in the cognitive neuroscience of language and memory, and study these processes using psychological experiments in conjunction with electrophysiological recordings and analyses. Additionally, I am interested in how these mechanisms change with age, as well as how they are influenced by strategies or metacognitive processes. My research career has led to many secondary interests, including attention, sleep, neurostimulation, and EEG analysis methods. I consider myself a Collaborative Cognitive Neuroscientist, and working with other scientists to answer interesting questions is one of my favorite aspects of research.

Interests
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Language and Prediction
  • Memory
  • Aging
  • EEG Analysis Methods
Education
  • Ph.D., Psychology, 2017

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • M.S., Psychology, 2014

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • B.S., Psychology, 2010

    University of California, Davis

Publications

(2022). Masked language models directly encode linguistic uncertainty. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 5(1), 225-228.

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(2021). Brain connectivity alterations during sleep by closed-loop transcranial neurostimulation predict metamemory sensitivity. Network Neuroscience, 5(3), 734-756.

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(2021). Dividing attention influences contextual facilitation and revision during language comprehension. Brain Research, 1764, 147466.

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