Dan Acheson

My research focuses on the interplay between memory, attention and language processing. The broad questions I address concern the extent to which memory and attentional processing affect language production and comprehension performance and how these processes are implemented in the brain. I use a variety of techniques to pursue these questions including behavioral work, eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI and TMS. Some of the topics I'm currently pursuing include:

- Determining the respective roles of frontal and temporal regions during language comprehension
- The neural basis of monitoring and control in language production
- The role of attention during the various stages of production planning
- The role of language production processes in verbal working memory
- Syntactic and semantic influences on verbal working memory
- EEG correlates of response conflict in language production