Erika Mayer, PhD is a Research Data Analyst III at CIPHR. She received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2023. With a background in experimental linguistics and psychology, she specializes in quantitative analysis of large, complex datasets.

Through her dissertation research in psycholinguistics, she designed, conducted, and analyzed eye-tracking while reading studies and a series of internet-based reading experiments. Her dissertation investigated how readers are able to process information about meaning as they read sentences and how they use that information to rapidly adjust predictions about upcoming words. During her time at UMass Amherst, she also worked on data analysis for a project involving electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials. In the past, she has held research assistant positions at several psychology labs, including the UMass Eyetracking Lab, the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies, and the UConn Language Creation Lab.