Diogo Almeida

Diogo Almeida is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), with affiliations in Biology (NYUAD), Psychology, and Linguistics (NYU). His research focuses on language processing mechanisms, including speech perception, word retrieval, and sentence parsing, with a strong emphasis on neuroimaging methods to study the interaction between language systems and perceptual/memor

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, 2009, University of Maryland, College Park
• MA in Cognitive Science, 2003, École Normale Supérieure & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
• BA in Languages and Literature, 2002, Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro

His work spans cross-linguistic studies across multiple languages including American Sign Language, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Modern Standard Arabic, and others. Neuroimaging techniques form the core of his experimental methodologies.

Professional activities include open-source contributions via GitHub (e.g., R packages for EEG analysis) and maintaining a research website.