In my professional life, I am Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and I have a secondary appointment at Vanderbilt Law School. My expertise is the cognitive science of conversation. I study how we talk, why we talk, and how talk is impaired following brain injury. My approach to conversation is multidisciplinary, drawing on both linguistic theory and theories of attention and memory to generate new testable predictions about the mechanisms underlying conversational language use. This work has a variety of potential broader implications for management of cognitive-communication disorders, as well as for law.

I am the Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and serve as Council Chair for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). I previously served as the President of the Society for Human Sentence Processing. View a copy of my CV here.

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In my personal life, I am a mother of four and I enjoy spending time with my family, hiking, gardening, and fixing things.

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