About Veronica

I live in the Bay Area, CA where I’m a graduate student in Psychology at Stanford University in the Language and Cognition Lab, working with Mike Frank. 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 convention formation. 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 accomplishments

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.