I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. Previously, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, and completed my PhD in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. Before that, I was at the University of Edinburgh, where I studied for my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Linguistics, and my masters degree in Cognitive Science.

My main area of research lies at the intersection of psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence, with a focus on how we can use language models and other computational systems to better understand human language comprehension in the brain, and how we can use insights from psycholinguistics to better understand and characterize the behavior of contemporary language models. I’ve also carried out research on human language comprehension and the capabilities of language models more broadly. Some of my other academic interests are reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, linguistic typology, philosophy of mind, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence systems in science.

 

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Contact Information

Email Address:

james.michaelov@psy.ox.ac.uk