Nora Beier is a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. George Mangun and Dr. Tamara Swaab at the intersection of language and attention. Previously, she completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at UC Davis with Dr. Fernanda Ferreira. Her doctoral research investigated the ways people focus on particular words during language comprehension and production using behavioral and eye-tracking methods. Her postdoctoral research, funded by an NIH F32 grant, will explore the neural correlates of attention during speech comprehension, measured through alpha oscillations and cortical tracking of speech. In particular, her research investigates whether attention is pre-allocated to particular words in time through rhythmic and non-rhythmic temporal predictions.