Hi, my name is Maya Taliaferro.

I’m a PhD student in the Cognition and Perception program at New York University where I am advised by Esti Blanco-Elorrieta.

I combine neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches to investigate how a single brain can process and sustain multiple languages. I am particularly interested in understanding how semantic knowledge and conceptual representations take shape when they are non-isomorphic across a speaker’s languages.

Before coming to NYU, I spent two years as a Research Scholar in the Brain and Cognitive Science Program at MIT. There I worked with Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Laura Shultz. Before that I obtained a B.A. in Neuroscience (with a minor in Japanese) from Hamilton College.

You can reach me at mjt10029@nyu.edu.