Biography Daniel Casasanto Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Daniel Casasanto received his PhD from the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT in 2005, and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University on a National Research Service Award. He is currently a senior scientific staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. His research integrates methods from cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience to explore connections between talking, thinking, perceiving, and acting. Casasanto is also a founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal Language & Cognition, to be launched by Mouton de Gruyter in 2009.