Laurel Brehm

Laurel Brehm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on how individuals integrate multiple linguistic representations during language production and comprehension, leveraging methods like eye-tracking, computational modeling, and behavioral experiments. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois (2014) and a BA from Reed College (2008).

Education:

• PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois, 2014
• MA in Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois, 2011
• BA in Psychology, Reed College, 2008

Research Interests:

• Psycholinguistics, sentence production/comprehension, memory-language interactions
• Language errors, meta-science, quantitative methods
• Conversational dynamics and dual-task processing

Grants & Awards:

• UCSB Faculty Research Grant (2023)
• Levelt Innovation Grant (MPI for Psycholinguistics, 2019)
• UIUC NIH Language Processing Fellowship (2012)
• APS Division 3 Best Poster finalist (2015)

Advising & Labs:

• Advises graduate/undergraduate students in UCSB Linguistics
• Former roles include Senior Investigator at MPI for Psycholinguistics
• Co-founder of R-Ladies Nijmegen