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Maria Sol

Lago

Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt

Interests: 

Cognitive Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics

Units: 

Linguistics

Degree(s): 

PhD in Linguistics, UMD

Advisor(s): 

Colin Phillips

Graduation Year: 

2014

Contact: 

sollago@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Role(s): 

Alumni

Website: 

Sol's Website

About: 

My main area of research is sentence comprehension, and I focus on trying to understand the interaction between the language faculty and the different memory systems. My research aims to gain insight about the language faculty by carefully teasing apart that evidence which pertains to the processing of language itself and that which relates to how other cognitive capacities interact with language during online processing. My goal is to try to build bridges in the ERP literature between the N400 and the components that have been proposed for recognition memory, the FN400 and the parietal/recognition effect. Two lines of research to achieve this goal can be distinguished. The first intends to investigate whether the N400 and the FN400 are different manifestations of a single, underlying process. The second proposes a new approach to the study of pronouns, guided by the knowledge we have about the recollection effect in recognition memory.

Collaborators: 

Jordan Boyd Graber
Wing Yee Chow
Dan Parker
Yakov Kronrod
Pedro Alcocer
Shannon Barrios
Giovanna Morini