Hi! I'm Wesley Leong (he/him).

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Psychology (Language and Cognition) at the University of Connecticut, advised by Gerry Altmann. I study topics at the intersection of neuroscience, computation, and language.

I'm currently working on a few related questions in language comprehension: (1) How do we dynamically build representations of events as language unfolds (for example, as someone's telling you a story), (2) maintain those representations for later use, and (3) represent their temporal content? To understand these processes in the mind and brain, I use a combination of behavioral tasks and neuroimaging. Check out our recent preprint on this, where we find a link between the neural processes underlying visual working memory and object change in language. In another line of work, I'm collaborating with Eiling Yee looking at the connection between labels and concepts. Here's our recent proceedings paper on the topic.

I was previously a research engineer at Halo Neuroscience in San Francisco, where I studied the effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on human performance. Before that, I graduated from New York University with a BS in Neuroscience, where I wrote my thesis in Eric Lang's Lab on time perception in the rat cerebellum. I also did some work in linguistics, including an MEG study in the Neurolinguistics Lab and a project on tense variation in Singapore English.

On a related note, I am from the tiny island nation of Singapore. I also boulder sometimes (V12 in your gym), and have recently gotten into throwing plastic at trees.