INFORMATION ON KEYNOTE SPEAKER - ROBERT FIORENTINO
Robert Fiorentino received his doctoral degree at the University of Maryland in 2006. His research concerns the basic nature of linguistic representations and the operations they undergo, with a major focus on how these ingredients of language are neurally implemented and recruited in real-time processing. He addresses these issues primarily using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research methods, with emphasis on brain imaging techniques such as MEG, EEG, and fMRI. Using both native speakers and adult second language learners as his population, his primary domains of language investigated are morphology/morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics. His publications include: Syntactic constraints and individual differences in native and non-native processing of wh-movement (with A. Johnson and A. Gabriele; Frontiers in Psychology, 2016), Examining second language development using event-related potentials: a cross-sectional study on the processing of gender and number agreement (with A. Gabriele and J. Aleman Bañón; Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2013). He is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kansas. Dr. Fiorentino will present, "Morphemes matter: Examining the neurocognitive processing of morphologically complex words".