Email: rickl@umich.edu
Voice: (734) 763-1466
Fax: (734)
Office: 4428F East Hall

Department of Psychology
University of Michigan

525 East University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109 USA

Dept. of Linguistics

Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

 


Click here to learn more about our new eyetracking studies of New Yorker cartoons.


My research investigates the computational foundations of human cognition and language. I focus on aspects of language comprehension that help reveal the fixed structure of the language processing architecture. My approach starts with functional computational models and brings to bear independent constraints from cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, and more recently, cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the approach combines the methodology of cognitive modeling with empirical psycholinguistics; the result is a kind of computational psycholinguistics.

 
My colleagues and I have several empirical and modeling projects underway that are mostly directed toward building a cross-linguistic theory of human sentence processing. Here are some of my current interests:
  • Executive function and the control of complex cognition
  • The relationship between the control structure of central cognition and the control structure of linguistic processing
  • Neuroimaging of language processing


CV in PDF format.

Brief academic history:

 

[Top of page]