About Veronica

I am a postdoc in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab (CPL) at MIT working with Roger Levy. As of winter 2026, I’m visiting at Stanford and working from the Language and Cognition Lab where I completed my PhD in 2025.

I’m a cognitive scientist and I study language, with a particular interest in pragmatic language use, the role of context in language processing, and developmental psycholinguistics. I also am interested in psycholinguistics methods and replicability and meta-science.

Previously I lived in Cambridge, MA where I recieved an SB in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT in 2019. During undergrad and the year after undergrad, I worked in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab with Roger Levy.

Before that, I grew up in Mountain View, CA.

Non-academic activities

Puzzling

I enjoy many types of puzzles including jigsaws and crosswords (cryptic and otherwise). I participate in puzzle hunts sometimes, including MIT Mystery Hunt. I was on the winning team in 2014 (the first year I hunted), and so I wrote for 2015. I wrote Lead Right (combining two of my hobbies, square dancing and cryptics), helped with some other puzzles, and led costume design and creation.

Knitting

I learned to knit shortly before college, and while I mostly work from patterns (although I rarely follow them completely), I designed a double-knit owl hat.

Giving to effective charities

In 2021, during the first year of grad school, I started donating 10% of my income to GiveWell. I took the Giving What We Can pledge in 2024.