Alexia Toskos Dils

Alexia Toskos Dils is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY), affiliated with the School of Natural and Social Sciences. Her research investigates individual differences in how perceptual and motoric mechanisms influence higher-level cognitive functions, particularly focusing on language comprehension and cultural structuring of mental representations.

Key areas of study include:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Psycholinguistics
• Cultural Cognition
• Perceptual-Motor Integration
• Social Perception
• Visual Motion Processing

Alexia earned her PhD from Stanford University and previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher there. She has published extensively on topics such as motion aftereffects from language, folk economic beliefs, and temporal context effects in attractiveness judgments. Her work appears in journals like Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.