Research Overview
Our research deals with the cognitive and brain mechanisms underpinning language and event representations. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how people produce and comprehend sentences, how we store and recollect events and how linguistic meaning interfaces with semantic and episodic memory. The research aims to improve our understanding of brain and cognitive mechanisms in health that may break down in cognitive impairments. We use a variety of methods, such as eye-tracking, fMRI and MEG. See York Neuroimaging Centre.
Research themes
- Sentence production and comprehension in brain and behaviour
- Event memory and memory for duration
- The role of language in memory and cognition
Current projects
- Sentence processing in adults and children
- Interactions of verbal concepts with visual memory
- Emotions in language and cognition