Dr. Shohini Bhattasali

Biography

Shohini Bhattasali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto St. George. Her research focuses on utilizing contemporary computational models to gain further insights into language comprehension in the brain. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics with a graduate minor in Cognitive Science from Cornell University in 2019. Her dissertation explored non-compositionality and argument structure from a neurolinguistic perspective, using tools from computational linguistics and naturalistic fMRI data. Following her doctoral studies, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she focused on the types of contextual information that guide comprehenders in language processing. Her areas of research include Computational Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Cognitive Science.

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