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Research Interests

Language processing, agreement phenomena in language production and comprehension, speech errors, linguistic processing in the right hemisphere, prosody, planning processes in language production, gesture, individual differences in language processing, statistical methods

Awards & Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa
• UNH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient, 2005
• UNH Undergraduate Research Award Recipient, 2005-2006
• Northeastern University Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grant, 2007, 2009, 2010
  
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Teaching, nominee, 2010-2011

Professional Organizations

• Student Member, Linguistic Society of America, 2006-present
• Co-Founder & Organizer, Boston Society of Cognitive Science, 2007-2009
• Student Member, Association for Psychological Science, 2009 - 2010
• Student Member, Cognitive Science Society, 2011-present

Professional & Department Service

Professional

• Ad hoc reviewing: Journal of Memory and Language, Psychology & Aging, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• Statistical consultant, Phonology and Reading Lab (PI: Iris Berent), Summer 2011 & Summer 2012

Department

• Panelist, University-Wide TA Workshop: Teaching/Studying as Graduate Students at Northeastern University, Fall 2008
• Organizer, R/Mixed-Effect Modeling Reading Group, Summer 2009
• Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, Fall 2009 - Summer 2011
• Treasurer & Co-Founder, Psychology Department Graduate Student Organization at Northeastern University, Fall 2009- Summer 2010
• Coordinator, Language Processing Brown Bag lecture series at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2011 - present

Teaching & Research Experience

Instructor of Record

Laboratory in Psycholinguistics, Fall 2010
Psychology  of Language, Spring 2009 [teaching materials]

Teaching Assistant

Co-supervised three directed study students at Northeastern University, Fall 2008 - Spring 2010
Supervised four research students (290s) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2011 - present
Co-supervised a University High School student in the I-STEM program at University of Illinois, Summer 2012

Research Assistant

Northeastern University, Sentence Processing Laboratory, 2006 - present
University of New Hampshire, Cognitive Neuroscience Sentence Processing Laboratory, 2004-2006

Publications

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N.J. (in press). Against structural constraints in subject-verb agreement production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N.J. (2011). Effects of semantic integration and advance planning on grammatical encoding in sentence production. In L. Carlson, C. Holscher, T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1625-1630). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011) Hierarchy and scope of planning in subject-verb agreement production. Cognition, 118, 377-397. [pdf]

Manuscripts

Gillespie, M., Pearlmutter, N.J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2012). Prosody reflects semantic integration in sentence production. Manuscript under review.

Gillespie, M., Federmeier, K.D., & Watson, D.G. (2012). Reduced verbal working memory increases co-speech gesture: Evidence from individual differences. Manuscript under review. 

Conference Presentations

Gillespie, M., Federmeier, K.D., & Watson, D.G. (2012, July). Individual differences in verbal working memory predict co-speech gesture. Poster to be presented at the Seventh International Workshop on Language Production. New York, NY.

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N.J. (2012, March). Advance planning and speech error production in a picture description task. Poster presented at the Twenty-fifth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N.J. (2011, November). Imageability in subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Seattle, WA.

Gillespie, M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2010, September). Prosodic phrasing reflects semantic integration. Poster presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, UK.

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N. J., (2010, March). Simultaneity of planning increases interference during subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the Twenty-third Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2009, September). Evidence against clause boundedness and hierarchical feature passing in subject-verb agreement production.  Poster presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2009, March). Against hierarchical feature passing in subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2008, November). Scope of planning as an alternative to hierarchical feature passing in language production. Poster presented at the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. [pdf]

Gillespie, M. (2006, May). Hemispheric sensitivity to determiner-noun agreement in a full-sentence context.  Poster presented at the Seventh Annual University of New Hampshire Undergraduate Research Conference, Durham, NH.

Invited Talks and Other Presentations

Gillespie, M. (2012, April). Language Production Lab: From thought to speech. Talk presented at the Inaugural Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Expo at the Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL.

Gillespie, M. (2011, December). Mechanical Turk: An introduction. Tutorial presented at the Communication and Language Lab, Conversation Lab, and Tremblay Lab joint meeting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.

Gillespie, M. (2011, October). Agreement computation in sentence production: Conceptual and temporal factors. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning Brown Bag Series at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.

Gillespie, M. (2011, August). Agreement computation in sentence production: Conceptual and temporal factors. Talk presented at the Language Processing Brown Bag Series at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.

Gillespie, M. (2011, February). Categorical predictors in regression. Lecture presented at the University of Rochester Brain and Cognitive Sciences Regression Workshop, Rochester, NY.

Gillespie, M. (2010, September). Introduction to R and mixed-effect modeling. Tutorial presented at the Language & Cognition area meeting at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Gillespie, M. (2010, May). Coding predictors: How to test your hypothesis. Tutorial presented at WOMM 2010 at McGill University, Montreal, QC.