Dr Briony Banks is a cognitive psychologist specialising in speech and language. She researches how language interacts with our perception, actions and cognition, for example how language comprehension is related to our sensory experiences and actions, and how we integrate multimodal cues when we communicate with others. She previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on an ESRC project on inner speech at the LISN lab. She then progressed to a Senior Research Associate on an ERC grant investigating how language and sensorimotor experience interact during complex cognitive processes such as semantic categorisation and memory for actions. She now works as a Senior Research Scientist at Ambition Institute. Her particular interests include how we understand abstract words, multisensory speech perception and inner speech/language. She uses a range of methods from experimental psychology, psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience.