I am a psycholinguist interested in how people can understand language. My primary interest lies in people's ability to construct rich mental representations of text. Constructing these representations requires understanding the discourse relations between clauses and sentences (e.g., causal and contrastive relations); such relations are a central topic in my work.

I use a combination of offline and online methodologies - corpus-based investigations, crowdsourced studies, and reading time experiments - to investigate questions related to the interpretation and processing of discourse (both written and spoken). My research contributes to building cognitive models of how language is processed and represented in the mind, and it helps to improve computational models of discourse.