Rate My Professor Diogo Almeida

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.