Meaning in a Social World
We investigate how the brain supports building meaning that combines what people say with who is saying it, guided by the understanding that stereotypes and biases can shape (and misshape) comprehension.
Jonathan R. Brennan
Associate Professor of Linguistics & Psychology
Neurolinguistics, semantics, and syntax.
Publications
How do listeners form grammatical expectations to African American Language?
Ideologies about standard language in the United States often posit Mainstream U.S. English (MUSE) as a morally superior variety (Hill …
Talks
Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Join us virtually for posters on morphological priming, memory interference, and multi-modal approaches to understanding …
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Looking forward to (virtually) sharing the latest with everyone this year! Including: flash talks by Tamarae Hildebrandt on EEG …
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Posters on neural entrainment, relative clause processing, and accented-speech comprehension!
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
All the latest from the lab! Including: a talk from Rachel Weissler about expectation-based processing for African American Language, …
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Student posters on dialect processing and neural entrainment, new work on memory mechanisms, and my ‘Early Career’ talk!
