Post-doctoral Researcher in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Ph.D. Psychology - 2008, George Mason University
M.A. Human Factors Psychology - 2004, George Mason University
Research Statement:
My research stems from four questions: how is information stored in the mind, how are mental representations transformed to achieve behavior, how are these systems learned, and how do disruptions in these processes produce cognitive impairments? I examine these questions through the study of lexical knowledge processing. I have investigated how knowledge of words is learned and represented (Sibley et al., 2008; 2009), how these representations are used to achieve word recognition and reading (Sibley et al., In Press), and how these processes are impacted by focal brain injury (Sibley & Kello, 2004; Kello et al., 2005), and language background (Sibley & Seidenberg, In Preparation). These explorations involved behavioral research and the development of large-scale computational models that advance our understanding of lexical processing and simulation modeling.
