In case you've stumbled across this website unintentionally, I'm a professor at the University of Connecticut, where I research language processing (how the mind 'does' language) and how the brain represents, recalls, and communicates the things that happen around us. I use a combination of different methods to study this: from brain imaging to eye movement tracking to computational modeling.



On the assumption you don't leave immediately, you'll find here more information about me - both academic and personal. Actually, it's not clear that there's much difference, to the extent that my work is about as big a part of my life as any other. I've even got a blog. Occasionally. More recently, I've taken it upon myself to update this website (October '23). RapidWeaver (the package I use to put it all together) has been updated several times since I last used it, and I couldn't get the old "theme" to work (themes control the styles and position of stuff - one can change the theme at the push of a button, and more often than not the look-and-feel changes while the content does not). So this is a work in progress as I wrestle with new themes and, slowly, with new content.

Anyhow, follow the links to find out more about my research, teaching, editorial activities, and current preoccupations (children, coffee, and my past Karate experience…) or if you need to contact me, go to my contact page. If you have a pressing need to read any of my papers, I've made a selection available to anyone living in a country where downloading copyright material is not illegal.

I used to be the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition, and you'll find occasional references to it in my blog. I did not post information there intended to be useful, but rather as a reminder to some future version of me, reading through past entries, of what my life was like while I was editor (note to future me: it's not too late to learn to say 'no'). However, I haven't added anything to my blog in ages… it's not that I can't think of what to write - there just aren't enough hours in the day. I'm hoping to get back to it at some point.

And finally…(this is here just for historical reasons - sadly, it no longer exists)

TagNotateInnovation in Annotation:
Annotate your PDFs. Tag your annotations.
Collect your thoughts.


TagNotate is an app I’d developed for annotating PDFs that, uniquely, allowed you to tag your annotations. It cut down the time it took me (and others) to review papers and grants by a factor of two or three!

TagNotate


It allowed the user to assign tags to individual user-added annotations (notes, highlights, sketches, etc.). These user-definable tags could then be used to collect together annotations containing the same (one or more) tags, across single or multiple documents. No other application allows tagging of annotations, or the use of such tags to filter and aggregate notes and highlights across those files. It sounds like an obvious thing to do, but surprisingly, no one else had done this before. For a few years it was the only annotation tagger on OS X and iOS. But it became too expensive, given its limited income, to maintain (Apple's implementation of PDFs kept changing). So in the end, we pulled it from the Apple store.

You could have found out more about TagNotate by visiting its webpage, or watching this YouTube video. I let the webpage lapse (probably that was a mistake), and when I last checked, the unused domain redirected to a quite explicit advertisement for porn. It seems that porn is to lapsed web domains as weeds are to lapsed lawns…