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Sammy Floyd is a psychologist at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) since 2023, with a focus on child development, linguistics, neurodiversity, and computational methods. Holding a PhD from Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship from MIT, they explore language acquisition through interdisciplinary approaches including eye-tracking and machine learning.
- BA, Smith College
- PhD, Princeton University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Their research spans pragmatic language abilities, lexical ambiguity, and neurodiverse learning patterns, with recent work analyzing communication in autistic youth and historical language change. They teach undergraduate and graduate courses such as Advanced Research Methods, Cognitive Science, and Child Development.
Recent publications highlight intersections between human cognition and machine language models, emphasizing polysemous word processing, pragmatic reasoning, and social convention comprehension. Key methodologies include computational analysis, comparative studies, and eye-tracking.
