I am Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Hugh's College.

My research investigates how the mind represents and uses meaning, asking what forms and formats meaningful representations take, how they are constructed, enriched, and inferred by speakers and comprehenders, and how they are encoded to, organized in, and retrieved from memory.

My approach to these questions brings linguistic theory and experimental psycholinguistics together. Linguistic theory provides explicit hypotheses about the operations and structures that form meaningful representations. Psycholinguistic theory provides real-time hypotheses about the cognitive processes that construct and use the operations and structures of those representations. Empirical evidence is used to test the predictions that follow from both, providing complementary constraints on theories of meaning and cognition.