My research interests are broadly concerned with how humans represent, process, and learn words, and integrate the individual words with the broader context in which they occur.  My work is informed by coordinated computational modeling using neural networks and empirical investigations using behavioural and electrophysiological techniques.  My primary research interests relate to how lexically ambiguous words are learned, represented, and processed, and how newly-learned words are integrated into the lexical system and generalized.  I also have secondary research interests in the similarities and differences between written and spoken word comprehension, visual word recognition and reading, and statistical learning.  My work aims to both advance knowledge about fundamental aspects of human language abilities and contribute to important applied aims, such as how to improve reading instruction.