I’m a postdoctoral assistant professor at the 
Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). I received my BA in Linguistics from UC Davis in 2009, an MA in Linguistics from CSU Fresno in 2013, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Delaware in 2019.
My research centers on the phonetic and phonological content of auditory predictions, using event-related potentials (ERPs). I use EEG (electroencephalography) technology to probe the content of memory trace representations generated in response to acoustically-varying input. I also do ERP and behavioral research in phonological rule-learning, as well as sentence processing, working memory, and second-language acquisition.
News
- Bilge Palaz, Arild Hestvik, and I published a paper – Informative use of “not” is N400-blind – in Psychophysiology.
- Chris Golston and I made the local news in Fresno to talk about Fresno State’s Chukchansi documentation project.
- I have been offered a postdoc at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)! The position involves both teaching and research, and will begin this September.
- I have successfully defended my dissertation titled “Phonetic and Phonemic Predictions in Auditory Memory”!
- I am giving a talk titled Ad Hoc Phonetic Categorization and Prediction at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Melbourne, Australia taking place August 5-9, 2019.
- Renee Zhiyin Dong is giving a talk titled Gap Predicting and Island Constraint in Processing Mandarin Topic Structure: An ERP Study at Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction in Reykjavik on June 20, 2019.
- I am giving a talk at GLOW in Oslo titled Neural Tracking of Implicit vs Explicit Phonotactic Learning on May 7, 2019.
- Our paper Phonological Memory Traces Do Not Contain Phonetic Information has been published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics: Special Issue – In Honor of Randy Diehl.
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