Maria Piñango

Maria Piñango is a Professor at Yale University specializing in Lexical & Conceptual Semantics. Her research focuses on real-time linguistic integration processes, particularly the interplay between syntactic and semantic information, and their cortical realization using fMRI and aphasia studies. She investigates how argument structure and syntactic representations interact with memory and other cognitive systems.

Education: PhD in Linguistics from Brandeis University (1999).

Research Languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese. Her methodologies include experimental psycholinguistics, neuroimaging, and case studies of language deficits from brain damage. She explores the temporal dynamics of semantic combinatorial operations and their syntactic dependencies.

Labs/Teams: Maintains a research lab (external link not accessible here) focused on cognitive and neural bases of language processing.