Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Map** Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …

Neuroimaging using more ecologically valid stimuli such as audiobooks has advanced our
understanding of natural language comprehension in the brain. However, prior naturalistic …

Recent advances in pedagogical research have called attention to the dynamic nature of the
teaching and learning process in which the actors mutually influence one another. The …

Are the brain bases of language comprehension the same across all human languages, or
do these bases vary in a way that corresponds to differences in linguistic typology? English …

Billions of people throughout the world are bilingual and can understand semantic concepts
in multiple languages. However, there is little agreement about how the brains of bilinguals …

Abstract Words can occur arbitrarily far away from where they contribute their meaning in a
sentence. Two examples are WH-questions (WHQs), which begin with a WH-word like what …

This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to
similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical …