Silvia P. Gennari

Dr. Silvia P. Gennari is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. She specializes in sentence production and comprehension, cognitive neuroscience of language, event structure representation, and time in language and memory. Her work explores the interaction between language, attention, and cognition across languages.

• Education: BSc and MA from Comahue National University, Argentina; MSc and PhD in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University.

Her research spans cognitive neuroscience, focusing on:

• Event structure processing and memory
• Animacy effects in sentence production
• Temporal and indexical references
• Cross-linguistic comparisons
• Neuroimaging and behavioral techniques

Recent publications highlight trends in temporal event memory, lexical competition, and neuroimaging studies. She serves as Admissions Officer for Postgraduate Taught programs and Director of the MRes programme. Collaborators include scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Lehigh, and Open University of Catalonia.