Heather Allen
The written word has been my passion ever since my older brother taught me how to read at the age of three. For the next three decades, I was (and still am!) rarely seen without a book or two in my hands. For me, my doctoral project of exploring the neural, linguistic, and textual factors that determine a reader's cognitive and empathetic relationship to the information embedded in a written work is a natural extension of the curiosity that inspired me to learn to read all those years ago.