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I am a research assistant in the Memory and Language Lab. I began working here on bilingualism and grammatical gender processing across English, Spanish, and Italian speakers, and I am currently part of LPPL2, a collaboration with the University of Florida using EEG to study how bilinguals process a second language in naturalistic listening, as they listen to The Little Prince in their first and second languages.

More broadly, I am interested in how we derive meaning from language, and in turn, how our language is given meaning by our own experiences, questions I approach through the lens of embodied cognition and psycholinguistics.

I am originally from Florida and earned my degree in psychology and music at Florida State University. I am of Latino heritage, with family roots in Argentina and Peru, which has shaped my interest in language and culture from early on.