Brennan R. Payne received his Ph.D. in the Cognitive Science of Learning from the University of Illinois. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science program in the Department of Psychology and director of the Language and Memory Aging Lab at the University of Utah. He also holds appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Neuroscience Program, and the Utah Center on Aging. Brennan’s research takes an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language and memory functioning across the adult lifespan. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, the National Science Foundation, and Google.