Dr Vitor Zimmerer

Teaching Fellow

Language & Cognition

Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences

Joined UCL: 8th Apr 2013

Research summary

I research syntactic processing in healthy speakers and a range of pathologies (e.g., dementia, aphasia, schizophrenia). I am particularly interested in basic storage and sequence processing mechanisms involved in language, their role in other areas of cognition, and how they can break down.

Biography

Vitor Zimmerer is a postdoctoral research associate of Acquired Language Disorders in the Department of Language and Communication at UCL. He achieved his PhD in 2010 at the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield under supervision of Rosemary Varley and Patricia Cowell. He worked as a postdoc researcher at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and the University of Reading.