Jon Burnsky

Alumni

PhD, 2022, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

MS, 2021, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

BA, 2016, University of Maryland-College Park

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Advisor: 

Adrian Staub PhD

Laboratory Website: 

https://blogs.umass.edu/jburnsky

Research Area(s): 

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Dissertation: 

What Did You Expect? An Investigation of Lexical Preactivation in Sentence Processing

Masters Thesis: 

The Effects of Predictability and Stimulus Quality on Lexical Processing: Evidence from the Coregistration of Eye Movements and EEG

Research:

My personal site is here.

I am interested in the syntactic and semantic processing that allows us to get complex meanings from the sequences of sounds we hear or the strings of letters on a screen. I am currently focused on thematic role processing, lexical prediction, and the formatting of lexical representations. To investigate these areas I mostly use behavioral methods, eye tracking, and ERPs.