I am a PhD student in the Cognitive and Neural Systems program in the Psychology Department minoring in Cognitive Science. Before coming to the UA, I did my Bachelor's and a Master's in Linguistics in Brazil, in which I mainly investigated figurative language comprehension. Currently, I use electrophisiological measures to look into the relationship between metaphor and emotion at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language lab.

Research Interests: 

• Figurative language processing, emotional processing, and the relationship between the two.

Selected Presentations/Master's Project:

• Baiocco, L., Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2023). Emotionality and task goals influence metaphor processing: evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Pittsburgh, PA, March 9-11.

Courses Taught:

• PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology (2023)

*Year listed indicates when this individual last taught the specified course.

Updated: 09/21/23