Dr Sayatan Mandal studies Natural Language from the perspectives of Cognitive Neuoscience and Psychology. Specifically, he explores the computational architecture of natural language phonology, its implementation in the human brain, and how it interfaces with the sensory and motor systems. He received his Master’s degrees from EFL University (Hyderabad) and The University of Auckland respectively, specialising in Generative Linguistics. Following this, he was a post-graduate psycholinguistics researcher at the MARCS Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Development in Sydney, Australia. His PhD work was carried out at Université Concordia, in Montreal, with support from CNRS’ Bases, Corpus et Langage and Complexity and Cognition Laboratories at Université Côte d’Azur, in Nice, France. His research straddles the interfaces between computational-representational theories of Generative Grammar, Biolinguistics and empirical methods in Cognitive Neuroscience. He specialises in the use of spatial and temporal neuroimaging methods, particularly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), to identify the neural substrates of cognitive computations. Currently, he is working with colleagues from CNRS on isolating temporal neurophysiological signatures of sub-modules of linguistic and speech processes. He is particularly interested in working with undergraduate and graduate students who would like to undertake theoretical and experimental neuropsychological work involving language and its various interfaces, including perception, articulation and vision.