Colin Humphries, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin working in the Language Imaging Lab. My research involves understanding how the brain processes language. Specifically, I am interested in the systems that are involved in comprehending multiple word entities, like sentences, based on grammatical and semantic relationships. I use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map out brain areas while people listen to various types of linguistic stimuli.

I first became interested in neuroscience working as a research assistant in Terry Sejnowski's Computational Neurobiology Lab at the Salk Institute. I later attended graduate school in the Cognitive Sciences Department at U.C. Irvine. There I worked in Greg Hickok's Laboratory of Cognitive Brain Research.