Jessica L Montag

Jessica L Montag is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with affiliations at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). She serves as an affiliate of the Center for Social & Behavioral Science.

• Current faculty in Psychology
• Assistant Professor at Beckman Institute
• Assistant Professor at NCSA
• Affiliated with Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Research Focus: Montag investigates how language abilities develop across the lifespan, specializing in language comprehension, production, and reading. Her work combines experimental methods with corpus analysis and advanced quantitative techniques.

Publication Trends: Recent studies include analyzing picture book reading practices in infancy, computational models of vocabulary acquisition, and individual differences in text exposure effects. Her research bridges cognitive psychology with corpus linguistics and technological applications.

Labs & Teams: Leads the Learning and Language Lab, which explores linguistic experiences through both experimental and naturalistic data collection methods.