Prof. Aya Meltzer-Asscher

Prof. Aya Meltzer-Asscher is an associate professor at the Linguistics Department and the Sagol School of Neuroscience. She is head of the Sentence Processing Lab at the Linguistics Department.

Prof. Meltzer-Asscher 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 completed her post-doctoral studies at the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab at Northwestern University.

Prof. 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. The research also targets the interaction between domain-general cognitive processes, such as working memory, and language comprehension.