Lorraine K. Tyler

Lorraine K. Tyler is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where she heads the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain. She holds affiliations as a Professorial Fellow at Clare College Cambridge and has received multiple ERC Advanced Investigator Grants. Her interdisciplinary research combines neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG), neuropsychological, and behavioral methods to investigate how the human brain supports language, perception, and meaning.

Her primary research focuses on the organization of neural circuits for language comprehension, perceptual decision-making, and cognitive changes in aging. Professor Tyler leads the Cam-CAN project, a large-scale initiative on healthy aging that has generated datasets used by researchers across five continents.

Professor Tyler serves as Editor-in-Chief of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience and has held leadership positions including President of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Her work has been funded by EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, Leverhulme Trust, and ERC.

• Fellow of the British Academy
• Fellow of Academia Europaea
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
• Bartlett Prize, Experimental Psychology Society

She directs the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, coordinating interdisciplinary teams investigating brain-language relationships across the lifespan.