Selected work
In this project I ask whether repeated exposure makes sentence-specific reading-time structure more recoverable across people. We found stimulus-driven structure preserved but attenuated through adaptation, and averaging across repetitions improved signal related to stimuli structure.
In the INT project and related work with Stanford’s Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab, led by Dr. Sasidhar Madugula, I helped intensive individual-level fMRI to examine how language representations interface with sensory and speech–motor systems.
We collected intracortical microelectrode array recordings from a participant during naturalistic listening and reading. The goal is to study how neural populations encode linguistic information at percisely localized langauge and speech sensitive regions with high temporal dynamics.
Led by Dr. Yuhan Zhang, I studied why some logically anomalous comparative sentences nevertheless feel acceptable. This work tests whether the graded strength of comparative illusions can be explained as Bayesian inference over plausible intended meanings, linking noisy-channel theory with behavioral acceptability judgments.