The Team

Aya Meltzer-Asscher

P.I.

I'm an associate professor at the Linguistics Deparment and the Sagol School of Neuroscience in Tel Aviv University. I'm a psycholinguist studying sentence processing, and in the past I've also done a lot of research on theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistics.

Here's my website.

Lola Karsenti

Ph.D. Student

My research focuses on lexical information associated with verbs (i.e., thematic frames, verb bias, and argument mapping properties) and investigates when and how, during processing, these information types become accessible and influence parsing.

Samuel Amouyal

Ph.D. Student

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in computer science under the joint supervision of Prof. Jonathan Berant and Prof. Aya Meltzer-Asscher, focusing on comparing sentence comprehension of Large Language Models (like Chat-GPT) and humans on sentences exhibiting uncommon syntactic structures.

Abeer Assy

M.Sc. Student

I am interested in studying how working memory limitations, particularly due to interference, can hinder sentence processing during the encoding and retrieval phases. Additionally, I aim to counteract the effects of encoding interference by applying various manipulations to enhance the naturalness of the experiment.

Edward Kishinevsky

M.A. Student

My research interests lie in working memory mechanisms and their effects on sentence processing. The main focus of my research is on the missing VP illusion, and how it is affected by various factors such as grammatical gender and resumptive pronouns.

Aviv Azar

M.A. Student

I am interested in how working memory mechanisms function and their effect on sentence processing.

My current research focuses on agreement attraction in Hebrew comprehension. The main goal of my research aims to explore whether and how various factors (such as word order and morphosyntactic features) modulate agreement attraction.

Ella Yakir

M.Sc. student

I am interested in the cognitive processes that take place when lexical predictions are violated. My research focuses on behaviorally characterizing the suggested process of lexical inhibition and inspecting the link between it and the f-PNP ERP component.

Stav Lipitz

M.Sc. student

I am interested in the cognitive mechanisms underlying the interaction between music and language.

My research investigates the interaction between structural (syntactic) boundaries in speech and melody and their role in facilitating language comprehension and memory.

Nataliya Kalanova

M.Sc. student

I am interested in the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying speech processing, particularly the relationship between predictive processing during speech comprehension and domain-general cognitive functions (e.g., working memory, cognitive control). My research explores how this relationship is associated with neural activity, primarily using electrophysiological measures such as event-related potentials (ERPs).

Mandy Cartner

Graduate researcher

I am interested in the organization of grammatical knowledge and its interaction with sentence processing. My main research focuses on bilinguals’ representation and access to language-specific information by examining patterns of intra-sentential code-switching.

Daniel Lachs Rabinovich

Lab manager

My research interests are in theoretical and experimental syntax, and the syntax-semantics interface. The current focus of my work is Hebrew reflexive anaphors and the availability (or lack thereof) of strict readings with reflexives.