Will Decker

Will Decker

I’m a Psychology PhD student in the Language, Intelligence and Thought Lab at Georgia Tech. I’m interested in how humans (and sometimes machines) learn, organize, and use knowledge of the world.

Will Decker outdoors beneath a blue sky
Atlanta, Georgia
Research
interests

Conceptual reasoning

Language, decision making, theory of mind and a myriad of other cognitive processes rely on conceptual, or semantic, knowledge. I use behavioral and neural (fMRI and intracranial recordings) measures and computational modeling to characterize how humans and AI systems use conceptual knowledge in various contexts, tasks and cognitive domains.

Language and cognition

Language interacts with many cognitive systems. To better understand language processing in the human mind and its relationship to other phenomena, I use neural (fMRI and intracranial recording) and computational modeling to study linguistic and non-linguistic representations that carry meaning and how they interface with language processing.

Papers

  1. 2025
    The facilitatory role of rhyme during implicit and explicit word learning Fan, T., Decker, W., Momsen, J., Haebig, E., & Schneider, J. M.
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  2. 2024
    The domain-specific neural basis of auditory statistical learning in 5 to 7-year-old children Fan, T., Decker, W., & Schneider, J. M.
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Find me
online

Substack @willdecker Google Scholar Publications Bluesky @jwilldecker.bsky.social GitHub @w-decker Email will.decker@gatech.edu