About

Hello! I’m Yage (/jakɤ/, or “yah-guh”) and I am a 4th year undergrad at UC San Diego, majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. (and minoring in Music!)

My research interests mostly involve how people use language (to think and communicate) in diverse contexts. Specifically, I like to work on things like pragmatics in autism (and how theory of mind/egocentricity is/isn’t involved), as well as other areas that intersects with psychology and cognitive science, such as the psycholinguistics in bilingualism, and some “not-so-linguisticky” topics like aphantasia or (absolute) pitch perception. I am also starting to explore some computational approaches/tools. I believe that we can’t fully understand language and cognition unless we understand the language and minds in different groups across various situations.

Outside of academics, I am passionate about music and art, as well as reading and writing. There are a bunch of topics that I particularly care about, including disability rights, theology & philosophy, and anthropology.