Margaret Ryan

Margaret Ryan serves as a Researcher at Macquarie University within the Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, holding dual roles as a Research Officer and recently awarded Doctor of Philosophy (June 2024). She additionally contributes as a Casual Professional at The University of Sydney, with research spanning psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, and neurolinguistics focusing on sentence processing, syntax-semantics interfaces, and neurophysiological methods.

Her academic credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy in Psycholinguistics (awarded 20 June 2024) and a Bachelor of Speech & Hearing Sciences (Honors Class 1) in Linguistics and Cognitive Neuropsychology (awarded 1 December 2000), both from Macquarie University.

Ryan's research investigates experiencer verbs, event structure, sentence aspect, and emotional processing through advanced methodologies including Electroencephalography, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Magnetoencephalography, MRI, and fNIRS. Her clinical interests encompass stuttering, aphasia, and apraxia, examining both theoretical frameworks and neural correlates of language disorders.

Recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate consistent focus on thematic role processing, particularly agents and causers in verb semantics, utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging approaches to analyze real-time sentence comprehension and event naturalness across diverse linguistic contexts.

She received the Postgraduate Research Fund Recipient award in 2020, recognizing her scholarly contributions during doctoral studies.

No student advising relationships are documented in available records. While specific laboratory affiliations aren't explicitly stated, her methodological repertoire indicates active collaboration with Macquarie University's neuroimaging facilities and cognitive science research groups.