Editor Profile

Ewald Neumann

University/Organization: University of Canterbury

Country: New Zealand

 Biography

Ewald Neumann is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Cognitive Psychology area at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, specializing in visual selective attention and human memory research. Prior to arrival at Canterbury, Dr. Neumann held research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland where he completed post-doctoral training and received a senior scientific staff fellowship. He has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and held faculty positions at New College (the honours college of the University of South Florida) and Middlebury College in Vermont. His primary research interests focus on selective attention, working memory, and cognitive control as these are the building blocks of all cognitively complex behaviour and thought. In particular, he investigates the nature of mental representations and psychological processes underlying the smooth interaction between attention, memory, and action. Another thread of his research involves the study of bilingual language representation and processing. By examining patterns of within- versus between- language priming in bilingual individuals, one can make inferences about the nature of the processing mechanisms necessary for coordinating two languages and how the two languages might be organized in memory. Dr. Neumann is also a founding member of The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to the study of human language, at the University of Canterbury.