CV
Education
- B.S. Neuroscience, Minor Linguistics
- 2023, University of Southern California
Research Positions
- Technical Associate, Advised by Dr. Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko
- Project Coordinator, Advised by Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt
- 2023-2025, Vanderbilt University
- Research Assistant, Advised by Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs
- 2022-2023, University of Southern California
- Research Assistant, Advised by Dr. Kirsten Lynch, Dr. Jeiran Choupan
- 2020-2023, University of Southern California
Publications
- Lan, H., Lynch, K., Custer, R., Shih, N., Sherlock, P., Sepehrband, F., Toga, A., & Choupan, J. (2023). Weakly supervised perivascular spaces segmentation with salient guidance of Frangi filter. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 89, 6, 2419-2431.
Manuscripts
- Lord, K., Kekes-Szabo, S., Sherlock, P., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2025). Under revision. Moderate-severe traumatic brain injury disrupts core mechanisms of online language processing and use. Cortex.
- Sherlock, P., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. In preparation. Moderate-severe traumatic brain injury disrupts online grammatical processing.
- Sherlock, P., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. In preparation. Moderate-severe traumatic brain injury disrupts online referential processing.
- Lord, K., Zhou, Y., Sherlock, P., & Brown-Schmidt, S. In preparation. Different demands, different memory: Conversational role and memory for the contexts of language use.
Conference Abstracts
- Sherlock, P., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. The impact of TBI on the use of referential context in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Human Sentence Processing. College Park, MD, USA. 27-29, March 2025. [Poster]
- Volante, C., Diachek, E., Sherlock, P., & Brown-Schmidt, S. Referential modification and memory for object features. Human Sentence Processing. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 16-18, May 2024. [Poster]
- Sherlock, P., Lynch, K., Choupan, J., & Toga, A. Anterior and middle cerebral artery caliber and PVS size in young adults. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Glasgow, Scotland, UK. 19-23, June 2022. [Poster]
Guest Lectures
- “Applying to Postbac Research Positions” at the Summer Professional Development Series for Undergraduate Trainees
- Facilitator: Dr. Whitney Barnett, Vanderbilt University
- “Language and Conversational Memory in Law and Policy” in PSY-PC 7500: Advanced Topical Seminar: Cognition in the Real World
- Instructor: Dr. Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University
Additional Training
- NASSLLI Volunteer and Attendee
- 2022, University of Southern California
Outreach
- “What it Means to be Human” course taught through MIT Splash
- “The Science of Language and Bilingualism” booth at the Glendale Spanish Immersion Elementary School science fair
Technical Proficiency
- Coding
- Python (PsychoPy, PyLink, Pandas), Bash, SLURM, R, MATLAB, Git
- Methodologies
- Data-Collection
- Gorilla, Prolific, Qualtrics, REDCap, SONA, PCIbex
- Applications
- Jupyter, Praat, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspaces, Gephi
Natural Languages
- English (Native)
- Spanish (Full working proficiency)
- Portuguese (Limited working proficiency)
- Italian (Basic)