Natasha Tokowicz (she/her)

Associate Dean for Equity, Faculty Recruitment, and Community Engagement

Professor of Psychology and Linguistics 

Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center

University of Pittsburgh

Email: tokowicz AT pitt DOT edu

My research focuses on the cognitive processes related to adult second language learning and use. One line of this research focuses on translation ambiguity, which occurs when a word has multiple translations. Another line of my research focuses on second language morpho-syntactic processing in relation to the similarities and differences between the native language and the second language. We use event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in addition to more traditional measures, such as reaction time and accuracy, to examine these issues.