Mircea C. Sauciuc

Graduate student

University of Kansas
Department of Linguistics
1541 Lilac Lane
Blake Hall, Room 427
Lawrence, KS 66044

mcs at ku dot edu

 

I am a third-year graduate student in the department of linguistics at the University of Kansas. I am a part of the Neurolinguistic and Language Processing Laboratory within the Department of Linguistics as well as the Spoken Language Lab within the Department of Psychology. My academic advisor is Rob Fiorentino.

—Research—

My research interests lie primarily in two subfields of linguistics: psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, mostly at the lexical level, with an inkling of interest at the sentential level. Below is a substantially comprehensive bullet-point list of my current interests and current projects. Although it may seem like a wide array, it really all becomes souped together very neatly and all are issues I attempt to tackle daily. I would be delighted to discuss any of these issues with anyone who proposes a problem that needs further discussion.

  • morphological processing
  • morphological decomposition
  • morphological productivity
  • neural substrates of morphological processing
  • electromagnetism of lexical access/processing
  • the necessary computations involved in lexical processing
  • brain physiology and neuroanatomy of language—and, ultimately, the intricacies of physiological methods such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
    • as of late, I've been surprisingly interested in the physics of MEG and fMRI
  • how language is biologically instantiated in the brain

As I continue updating this website, I will add relevant papers dealing with a lot of these issues, including some that are perhaps just meant to be treated as notes or a guide.


—Publications—

  • Juola, J. F. et al. (under review). Categorical perception in synchrony judgments and speech perception.

—Presentations—

  • Direction types in Romanian, talk presented at Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquim, Harvard University, April 22-23, 2006 [handout]
  • Direction types in Romanian, talk presented at the Undergraduate Research Academy, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, April 2006



—Academic Service—

  • President, Linguistics Graduate Student Association (LGSA), 2007 - present
  • Organizer, Mid-America Linguistics Conference (MALC), October 2007



—Miscellaneous—

When I'm not doing linguistics, I enjoy photography, running, literature, and philosphy. Nowadays on rare occasion, I enjoy playing backgammon. I have very few websites that I visit often, but one is definitely PhD Comics. This seems to put life in perspective. Another site for great humor and wit is xkcd. Below are some other links to friends or their blogs or other places I like to visit in the virtual world.



"If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid, it is probably not very good physics."
        —Ernest Rutherford, attributed in Journal of Advertising Research, Mar/Apr. 1998


Last updated: 15 November 2008