Fernanda Ferreira is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Member of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. She received a B.A. (Honours) in Psychology in 1982 from the University of Manitoba, and a M.Sc. in Psychology in 1985, an M.A. in Linguistics in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1988 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on uncovering the mechanisms that enable humans to understand and generate language in real time and in cooperation with other cognitive systems. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Cognitive Science Society, the Psychonomic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1996 she received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. From 2006-2010 she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and in 2020 she helped found the Diamond Open Access journal Glossa Psycholinguistics. She has been a member of the Linguistics Panel of the National Science Foundation and is currently a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Study Section on Language and Communication.

Website: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Twitter: @fernandaedi

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Fernanda Ferreira
Ferreira Lab
102 Young Hall
1 Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616 USA

Phone: 530-752-1880
Email: fferreira@ucdavis.edu