Fernanda Ferreira and Nikole D. Patson

Short Biography

Fernanda Ferreira obtained her PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988. She is now Professor and Chair of Language and Cognition at the University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are language comprehension and production, focusing especially on the roles of syntax, prosody, and disfluencies, and the integration of visual and linguistic information online. She is co-author with John M. Henderson of The Integration of Language, Vision, and Action (2004, Psychology Press), and co-author with Janet D. Fodor of Reanalysis in Sentence Processing (1999, Kluwer).

Nikole Patson's area of research is psycholinguistics. Current research focuses on plural noun representation and lingering misinterpretations. She holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Michigan-Flint.