Dr. Layla Unger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Director of the Language, Learning & Cognition Lab.

She completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh, PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, and postdoctoral training at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on how we develop rich, interconnected bodies of knowledge about the world that support our abilities to use language, reason, retrieve useful knowledge from memory, learn new things, and many other fundamental aspects of human intelligence. She pursues these questions using a combination of behavioral experiments, eye tracking, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computational modeling.

Dr. Unger will be accepting graduate student applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.