Alexander Taikh

Dr. Alexander Taikh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University of Edmonton. His academic focus spans psycholinguistics and memory, investigating how contextual and semantic information influences language processing and retrieval. He employs behavioral experiments, pupillometry, and electrophysiological methods in his research. Taikh's work explores topics such as morphological decomposition in compound words, the impact of production effects on memory, and the neurocognitive underpinnings of lexical access.

He teaches courses including Language Processing and Psychological Statistics Using Computers. His research has been presented at prominent conferences like the Psychonomic Society and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, addressing themes like semantic priming, word recognition, and stuttering's impact on phonological encoding.