Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado

Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Rastle Lab at Royal Holloway, University of London's Department of Psychology. He holds a PhD in Psycho/Neurolinguistics from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where he was funded by the QMUL Principal’s Postgraduate Research Studentship. His work focuses on morphological processing in Tagalog and bilingual language acquisition. He has collaborated with New York University Abu Dhabi on the SAVANT Project, investigating neurobiological bases of morphological processing in understudied languages.

Research interests include: neurolinguistic mechanisms of morphological decomposition, cross-linguistic influences in bilingualism, and developmental reading acquisition. He employs MEG, EEG, and behavioral experiments (masked priming, reaction time studies) alongside computational modeling.

Key achievements include the British Academy Fellowship and publications in Language Learning and experimental linguistics journals. His work bridges formal linguistics with cognitive neuroscience, emphasizing understudied Austronesian languages.