Laura Baiocco Pereira
Graduate Student, Cognition & Neural Systems
Faculty Advisor: Vicky Lai
Psychology 113
Pronouns:
She, Her, Hers
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 (2024)
*Year listed indicates when this individual last taught the specified course.
Updated: 04/08/24
Degree(s)
- M.A. Psychology, University of Arizona (2023) - Cognition and Neural Systems program
- M.A. Linguistics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul