CV
Education
B.S. Neuroscience, Minor Linguistics
2023, University of Southern California
Research Positions
Technical Associate, Advised by Dr. Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko
2025-present, MIT
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
- Casto, C., Poliak, M., Tuckute, G., Small, H., Sherlock, P., Wolna, A., Lipkin, B., D’Mello, A. M., & Fedorenko, E. Submitted. The cerebellar components of the human language network. Neuron.
- Lord, K., Kekes-Szabo, S., Sherlock, P., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. 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
2025, Cambridge, MA
“The Science of Language and Bilingualism” booth at the Glendale Spanish Immersion Elementary School science fair
2024, Oak Hill, TN
Technical Proficiency
Coding
Python (PsychoPy, PyLink, Pandas), Bash, SLURM, R, MATLAB, Git
Methodologies
fMRI, Eye-Tracking
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)