Tzu Yin Lai
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP
Assistant Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Vicky T. Lai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Program of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Arizona. She received her doctoral training in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she used measures of brain electrical activity (ERPs) to study how people understand metaphorical language. During her postdoctoral training in the Neurobiology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, she expanded the scope of her research to include emotion, exploring the role of emotion in language, using ERPs and functional MRI. She then continued her postdoctoral training in the Language, Concepts, and the Brain Laboratory at the University of South Carolina, where she examined the embodiment of language through metaphor.
Offering Research Opportunities?
Yes
Prerequisite Courses
None
Majors Considered
Psychology, Neuroscience, School of Information, Computer Science, Linguistics
Types of Opportunities
Description of Opportunity
No description given
Start Date
January 2017
Primary Department
Affiliated Departments
Research Location
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Psychology, 509