Lilia Rissman

Lilia Rissman serves as an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY, specializing in cognitive science and language research.

Her work investigates how cognitive biases shape language representation and learning across diverse linguistic systems, integrating methodologies from adult semantic representation studies, cross-linguistic analysis, emerging sign languages, and child language acquisition. A core focus involves event semantics, particularly conceptual frameworks surrounding agency, instrumentality, and causation.

Contact is facilitated via lrrgsh@rit.edu.