Michael S. Amato BA Northeastern University, 2004 Lab: Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Adviser: Maryellen MacDonald Research Interests I am a second year student in the cognitive area group, interested in how humans put words together to understand larger meanings. I'm also interested in the extent to which a person's knowledge about the words in a language is distinct from that person's conceptual world knowledge. My current research focuses on the learning of statistical relationships between elements, how people might use such knowledge to guide their linguistic behavior, and to generalize to novel elements. 618 Brogden Hall University of Wisconsin- Madison: Psychology Department Brogden Hall, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706-1969 Office: (608) 262-0512 or (608) 262-1041 Fax: (608) 262-4029     Last Modified: February 13, 2007 12:16 PM Copyright © 2006 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.