Sarah Laszlo, PhD Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Baker Hall 254T Pittsburgh, PA 15213 PhD (2009) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign MA (2006) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BS (2004) Massachussetts Institute of Technology Thesis Advisor: Kara D. Federmeier Postdoctoral Advisor: David C. Plaut CV

I am interested in the computational and neuroanatomical substrates of visual word recognition. In my PhD work, I used Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) to examine the independent contributions of multiple lexical variables (e.g., frequency, orthographic neighborhood size) to the semantic processing indexed by the N400 ERP component. Currently, I am developing a connectionist model in the parallel distributed processing tradition which aims to simulate both a large ERP data set I collected at Illinois and also the behavioral measures that are typically simulated by computational models (e.g., naming latency, reaction time in the lexical decision task.)