Director
Dr. Ariel Goldberg
Dr. Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. He received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on the mechanisms and representations involved in language production and how they relate to linguistic patterns found in the world's languages.
Research techniques include phonetic measurements, reaction time measurements, computational modeling, and analysis of aphasic patterns of performance.
Academics
Dr. Goldberg is co-director of the Tufts Linguistics Minor and is a core faculty member of the Tufts Cognitive and Brain Sciences major and the Tufts Joint Cognitive Science PhD program. Please feel free to contact him if you are interested in either of these programs.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Phonological Theory
- Psychology of Language
- Introduction to Psychology
- Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Language Processing Seminar
Media Appearances
- What Makes A Word? Making Sense Of The Argle-Bargle - NPR's Here and Now, 6/30/2015
- Why we mispronounce words - NPR's Here and Now, 2/12/2015
- A defense of Menino's language gaffes - Boston Globe, 11/17/2013