Kalil Warren

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology (Cognitive and Neural Sciences) at the University of South Carolina. My advisor is Dr. Amit Almor.

I study how people understand language and what the brain does while they do it. My dissertation asks how listeners keep track of where a voice came from while they follow what it says. I also work on how people resolve references in a conversation, on aphasia and the brain regions that support naming, and, most recently, on whether people and AI monitors can follow a conversation between two AI agents.

I teach as much as I do research. Since 2023 I have been the instructor of record for seven course sections at USC: composition, psychological statistics, learning and memory, and the cognitive psychology lab, with introductory neuroscience next. For my statistics students I wrote the StatTeacher Toolkit, a free web app that makes practice problems and checks the answers.

I hold an M.A. in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) and a B.S. in Psychology, magna cum laude, both from USC. I speak French and have a side interest in how bilinguals process language.