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Neal Pearlmutter
Associate Professor
125 Nightingale
(617) 373-3040 (office)
(617) 373-8714 (fax)
n.pearlmutter@neu.edu

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Research

We investigate how people produce and comprehend language, focusing on mental representations and processes related to dealing with sentences. Thus, in language production, we examine how people choose a particular sequence of words to express some particular meaning that they wish to convey. In language comprehension, we examine how people combine the meanings of a sequence of words (like the ones in this sentence) to construct the meaning of an entire sentence.

Current topics and issues under investigation include ambiguity resolution, speech errors, interactions between memory and language processes, individual differences in language ability, cross-linguistic differences in language processing, functional neuroimaging of language processes, and interactions between detailed knowledge of word meaning and word use in sentences. 

Frequently Taught Courses

Cognition Laboratory
Psychology of Language