Prof. Einat Shetreet
Einat's research is aimed at understanding how people learn and understand language. She uses neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study the mental representations and mechanisms adults and children use during language comprehension, focusing on the sentence and discourse level. Einat recieved her PhD from the psychology department in Tel Aviv University. Her research, under the supervision of Prof. Naama Friedmann and Prof. Uri Hadar, examined lexical/syntactic aspects of sentence comprehension in adult Hebrew-speakers. She then continued to a joint postdoctoral position in the Harvard medical school, the department of lingusitics in Harvard University, and the laboratories of cognitive neuroscience in Children’s Hospital Boston. There, working with Prof. Gennaro Chierchia and Dr. Nadine Gaab, she examined pragmatic processing in children. Before coming back to Tel Aviv university, she also complete postdoctoral training in ERP in the Kuperberg NeuroCognition of language lab at Tufts University where she she worked on discourse processing, examining the effects of discourse cues on word prediction. Einat Joined the department of Linguistics and the Sagol School of Neuroscience in Tel Aviv University in 2016 and established the CaLL (Cognition and Language Learning) lab where she studies semantic and pragmatic processing in adults, as well as in typically developing and language-impaired children.