Laurel Brehm
UC Santa Barbara
Laurel Brehm is an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara. She received training at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Penn State University, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She got interested in language production from two formative experiences: meeting someone with aphasia for the first time, and observing the variations in number agreement used in British and American music magazines. Her research focuses on mistakes and variations in sentence and word production: how do we say what we mean, and what types of experience do we rely on to understand what someone else means? She and her lab use a wide variety of techniques including production elicitation paradigms, eye-tracking, memory errors, corpora, and computational/statistical modeling in order to study these questions.