Tessa Warren is an associate professor in the Psychology department at the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary appointments in Linguistics and Communication Science and Disorders. She received her PhD in cognitive science from MIT in 2001, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Dr. Warren’s primary research focus is on adult sentence processing. She has a long-standing collaboration with Dr. Michael Walsh Dickey that investigates the relationship between language processing and event processing, and the way this relationship might be impacted by aphasia. Dr. Warren serves as an editor at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.