Rate My Professor Diogo Almeida

Diogo Almeida is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi, where he joined as Assistant Professor in 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. He also serves as Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology and holds affiliations in Biology at NYU Abu Dhabi as well as in Psychology and Linguistics at New York University. Previously, Almeida was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University from 2010 to 2011 and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine from 2009 to 2010. He earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009, an MA in Cognitive Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2003, and a BA in Modern Languages and Literature from Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro in 2001.

Almeida specializes in psycho- and neurolinguistics, with primary research interests in language processing and the perceptual processes that support it. His investigations encompass speech perception, word retrieval during production and comprehension, and sentence-level parsing and interpretation. He employs diverse methodologies, including cross-linguistic experiments and neuroimaging techniques such as MEG, EEG, and fMRI, across languages like American Sign Language, Modern Standard Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Mandarin, Nepali, and Russian. Notable publications include 'Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments' with Jon Sprouse (Glossa, 2017), 'Attraction effects for verbal gender and number are similar but not identical: Self-paced reading evidence from Modern Standard Arabic' with Matthew Tucker and Ali Idrissi (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021), 'Setting the empirical record straight: Acceptability judgments appear to be reliable, robust, and replicable' with Jon Sprouse (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017), 'Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: Self-paced reading evidence from Arabic' with Matthew A. Tucker and Ali Idrissi (Frontiers in Psychology, 2015), and 'Sentence processing selectivity in Broca’s area: Evident for structure but not syntactic movement' with Corianne Rogalsky, Jon Sprouse, and Gregory Hickok (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2015). In 2021, he was co-PI on a Global Seed Grant from NYU worth $150,000.