UMD Psycho/Neuro
University of Maryland, College Park
Who we are
We are a group at the University of Maryland interested in how people understand, produce, and learn language. We meet to share research and discuss work in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
When we meet
Tuesdays · 3:30-5:00 pm ET
Get in touch
Contact the organizer to join our mailing list, present in our group, or get the Zoom link.
Fall 2026
| Date | Presentation | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 | Utku Turk — Planning time, its syntax and morphophonology
Abstractongoing blocked priming production study that shows morphosyntactic tense features are planned early in the sentence, meanwhile the morphophonology is established quite late. | Blue Room |
| Sep 15 | Matt Wagers — Round table | MMH1108B |
| Sep 22 | Xiaoyu Yang — on Quantifiers EEG
Abstractongoing EEG study that uses time-resolved decoding to test the relational vs. restricted theory of quantifier meanings. | MMH1108B |
| Sep 29 | Allison Dods — Recalling octo-recall
AbstractI’ll be reporting on joint work with Utku and Sebastián in the area of sentence production, investigating the mechanisms of sentence recall and semantic interference. | MMH1108B |
| Oct 6 | Blue Room | |
| Oct 20 | London Dixon | MMH1108B |
| Oct 27 | Sebastián Mancha | MMH1108B |
| Nov 3 | Blue Room | |
| Nov 10 | Carmen Tang | MMH1108B |
| Nov 17 | Xiaoyu Yang | MMH1108B |
| Dec 1 | Blue Room | |
| Dec 8 | Matthew Ganquan Shi | MMH1108B |
| Dec 15 | Blue Room |
Spring 2026
| Date | Presentation | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 4 | Xiaoyu Yang — Discourse representations | |
| Feb 18 | Ellen Lau — Group discussion on words | |
| Mar 4 | Utku Turk — Production of agreement | |
| Mar 25 | Sebastián Mancha — Sentence memory | |
| Apr 8 | Mal Shah — Majority quantifiers | |
| Apr 22 | Ellen Lau — fMRI of language, math, and social knowledge | |
| Apr 29 | Alba Jorquera Jiménez de Aberásturi — Shain/Fedorenko and a Fedorenko group Nature Neuroscience review | |
| May 6 | Sebastián Mancha — MEG clause wrap-up effects |
Fall 2025
| Date | Presentation | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17 | Victor Chamot and Alba Jorquera Jiménez de Aberásturi | |
| Sep 24 | Will Zumchak — Indefinites | |
| Oct 1 | Tessa Culleton — Mutation and neutralization | |
| Oct 8 | Allison Dods — The intersection of psycholinguistics, autism, and conversation | |
| Oct 29 | Audrey Laun — MEG production and comprehension | |
| Nov 5 | Xiaoyu Yang — The role of the anterior temporal lobe in meaning computation | |
| Nov 12 | Samer Nour Eddine — Piantadosi (2021) discussion | |
| Nov 19 | Sebastián Mancha — Syntax in memory | |
| Dec 3 | Gwilliams et al. paper discussion | |
| Dec 10 | Carmen Tang — Lexical tones in MEG |