Hi! I'm Wesley Leong (he/him).
I am a sixth-year PhD candidate in Psychology (*on the academic job market!*) at the University of Connecticut, where I work primarily with Gerry Altmann and Eiling Yee. I use behavioral experiments and EEG to study how our minds and brains represent things in working memory and language. Here are some current questions:
1. Is there a general neural process for how the brain represents objects in working memory, regardless if they are evoked through vision or language? We find evidence for theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling as one potential signal.
2. How do we represent sequences of states, bound to the same object (as opposed to sequences of distinct objects)? Do these share a common underlying process? Again, we find evidence theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling supports both!
3. How does similarity structure our knowledge of labels and concepts? We find that people prefer similar labels referring to similar things, overriding other biases like sound symbolism.