Psycholinguistics, Information, and Computation Lab

Welcome to PICoL ( pronounced “pickle” 🥒 ) at Georgetown University

Our goal in PICoL is to understand the computational mechanisms that facilitate language learning and language processing in the human mind, and to use this knowledge to build robust and safe language technologies. To do so, we deploy a multidisciplinary toolkit including formal linguistic theories, experimental psycholinguistics, statistical modeling, and deep learning.

PICoL was launched in fall 2024 and is housed in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown. It is directed by Ethan G. Wilcox.

News and Updates:

🥒 PICoL has the opportunity to recruit postdocs through the Georgetown University Neuroscience of Language Training Program. Additional information about applying to the program can be found at this webpage

🥒 PiCOL will be recruiting PhD students during the 2025 application cycle. More information can be found on Ethan’s personal webpage