Matthew Kogan

A recent photo of Matthew wearing a gingham button-up shirt in front of a redwood tree.

I'm a fifth year PhD candidate in Linguistics at UCSC, where I'm advised by Matt Wagers. I'm primarily interested in psycholinguistics, sentence processing, and experimental syntax. In particular, I study the granular ways in which syntactic structures are represented during real-time language processing, and how those representations are encoded and retrieved from memory during the course of dependency resolution.

I'm serving as a 2025-2026 Oaxacan Language Public Fellow with the The Humanities Institute, in collaboration with Senderos and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.