Mike Vitevitch

Prof. Vitevitch has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and studies the processes and representations used in language-related processes (including word learning, second language acquisition, speech perception, and speech production). He uses the computational tools from network science to measure how words are organized in the mental lexicon (that part of memory that stores the words you know), and how the structure of the lexicon influences how easily words are retrieved from memory. Another line of research uses auditory illusions (such as the speech-to-song illusion) and speech errors of various kinds (including tip of the tongue states) to understand how the language system works.