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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. What neural processes underlie how we represent objects that change? Do we recruit the same mechanisms that allow us to represent distinct objects in a sequence?
2. How do we bind different states of an object, at different points in time, into a single coherent object representation?
3. How does similarity structure our knowledge of labels and concepts? Do people prefer similar labels referring to similar things, and if so, why?
Recent news
New paper out in Brain & Language - evidence of theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling as a neural signal for object representations in vision and language
I won the 3MT thesis competition at UConn! Watch the studio recording here
Presented a talk at CogSci in Rio de Janeiro: Breaking Bouba-Kiki: the effect of label similarity in naming perceptually similar referents