I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Richmond. 

My research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to language comprehension, from lower-level processes of word recognition to higher-level processes of sentence interpretation.  Some of the overarching questions that motivate my work include:

• What is the nature of the memory processes that support language comprehension? 

• How do we represent sentence meaning and sentence structure in the mind, and how do these representations interact? 

• What cognitive constructs best account for individual variability in reading behavior? 

• What sources of information do listeners exploit to generate predictions during the processing of speech, particularly when the speaker becomes disfluent? 

• What is the nature of the cortical network underlying language processing, and how does this system change as sentence complexity increases? 

To address these questions, I rely primarily on eyetracking methodology, but also incorporate approaches from cognitive neuroscience and computational linguistics.