Kira Breeden

I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Psychology at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Professor Gary Lupyan. My research focuses on language and cognition, with particular interests in semantic representation and inner speech.

I received my B.S. in Computational Cognitive Science from The University of Michigan, where I worked under the supervision of Dr. Twila Tardif and Dr. Susan Gelman. Prior to my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I completed a Master in Data Science at Northwestern University and worked as a Data Scientist for two years.

I am passionate about research questions involving how language informs the way we respresent information, and how we as humans represent, gain, and manipulate semantic knowledge through language learning and use.