I am a PhD student in Hispanic Lingustics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. My main research interests include sentence processing, codeswitching, psycholinguistics, and perception and production in bilingual populations.

I am currently working on auditory comprehension of codeswitched utterances in Spanish-English bilinguals using the Visual World Paradigm with my co-advisors, Giuli Dussias and Chip Gerfen, and my fellow grad student, Rosa Guzzardo. In this innovative research paradigm, participants wear a head-mounted eye-tracker while seated in front of a visual scene (pictures, real objects, etc.). As the participants listen to speech, their eye-movements are recorded.

At Pennsylvania State University, I am an active member of the Center for Language Science, a diverse group of psycholinguists, speech pathologists, linguists, cognitive scientists, and others. We meet on a weekly basis during the semester to support and discuss our research in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.