Prof. Dr. Martin M. Monti is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His research focuses on two of the most fundamental aspects of being human: (1) The interplay between language and thought, and (2) Consciousness and cognition in coma, vegetative and minimally conscious states.