Prof. Aya Meltzer-Asscher

Prof. Aya Meltzer-Asscher is a full professor, head of the Sentence Processing Lab in the Linguistics Department and head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She received her academic degrees from Tel Aviv University, where she graduated in Computer Sciences and Linguistics, and earned her M.A. and her Ph.D.in linguistics. She then completed her post-doctoral studies at the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab at Northwestern University before joining Tel Aviv University Faculty in 2013.  

Meltzer-Asscher's research focuses on language comprehension in the adult, healthy brain. Her research uses online behavioral methods (such as reading times) as well as electrophysiology, to track sentence processing as it occurs in real time, millisecond by millisecond. Some of the topics currently investigated in Prof. Meltzer-Asscher's lab include the comprehension of sentences with long-distance dependencies, lexical and structural prediction in sentence processing, and the effect of specific grammatical properties of languages on processing routines, as well as the interaction between domain-general cognitive processes, such as working memory, and language comprehension. She has published more than 40 papers on neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics, and has received funding for her research from the European Union (Marie Curie), the German-Israel Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, the Binational Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, and others.