As of July 1st, Veena Dwivedi (1994 UMass PhD) is (Full) Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brock University in Canada. In the Dwivedi Brain and Language lab, Veena and her team “integrate sophisticated linguistic theory with the latest advances in neuroscientific methods in order to build a model of sentence comprehension that can more accurately predict how language is processed in real-time. We are concerned with the computation of meaning, and how this computation is affected by both linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g., emotion, attention, working memory) systems in the brain. We are currently developing a model which tests how and when grammatical structure plays a role in sentence comprehension.”