Saiee Mankame

I am a PhD student in the Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) program of the Psychology department, and a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language (CNL) lab.

Research Interests:

•  Investigating how emotional information is processed during language comprehension
• Examining how metaphors & other forms of figurative language shape emotional processing & influence the neural representation of emotion during language comprehension
• Studying the temporal & neural mechanisms underlying language comprehension

Selected Publications:

• Mankame, S. K., & Kim, J. (2026). Comprehending Novel And Conventional Metaphors In Marathi: An EEG Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kz8037s 

Courses Taught:

TA for:

• PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology (2026)

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

Updated: 10/02/26