Decker Pope

Biography

I am an Education, Research, and Action (ERA) post-bac fellow in the CAM lab. I received a B.A. in French and Linguistics and an M.A.T. in French from Indiana University in Bloomington, where I was involved in second language sentence processing research. After two years teaching middle school, I saw students who could decode text but not comprehend it, which pushed me back toward research. I'm interested in the cognitive mechanisms that underpin reading comprehension, particularly how attention control and working memory capacity predict individual differences in sentence processing. When I’m not in the lab, I enjoy learning languages, cooking, and learning to make things by hand.