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Stephanie Huette, Ph.D.
I have worked on wide variety of research projects within language perception from a dynamic framework. My collaborators and I do theoretically motivated research that mainly investigate the principles and mechanisms of language processing at the level of pragmatics and semantics. We do this by tracking behaviors in real-time, which provides a direct window into how you use language as it is being heard, as a source of information about the world. My lab has many students interested in language and behavior from many different perspectives, with a primary goal being to reconcile theory across disciplines. I actively work on many experimental and computational modeling projects at any given point in time, and teach courses on cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and neural networks. We also have weekly lab meetings, during which we talk about current projects, recent publications, and deeper theoretical issues (for example, the best way to eat Gus's fried chicken).
Contact: shuette at memphis.edu
Office: 369 Psychology
Graduate students
Megan Boatman (MS student)
Taylor Clark (MS student)
Megan completed her BA in Psychology at the University of Memphis. She is interested in sarcasm. She has spent a lot of her life making sarcastic statements and receiving blank stares in response. She found this quite disheartening and wanted to know why this kept happening to her. She is currently researching the factors that contribute to an individual’s ability to detect sarcasm.
After completing her Master’s in the MSGP program, Megan plans to pursue a PhD in legal psychology.
Contact: mcbatman at memphis.edu
Office: 439 Psychology
Taylor is interested in how race affects people's perceptions of minorities (especially African-Americans). He is currently working on a study that looks into how othering and humor affects people's implicit bias towards African-Americans.
Taylor is working on obtaining a degree from the MSGP program here at the University of Memphis and plans on obtaining a PhD to further pursue his interests in sociolinguistics.
Contact: tclark9 at memphis.edu
Office: 439 Psychology
William Britton (Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate)
William is a recent graduate from The University of Memphis with majors in Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Japanese. He has worked for several terms in both the Language and Behavior lab and the Knowledge Acquisition lab in the psychology department. He has also worked on the Languages Across Cultures team in the IIS, and is currently working on his thesis sentential negation differences between Japanese and English.
William spent a year studying in Japan at Nagoya Gakuin University. He plans to attend graduate school in cognitive science.
Contact: wjbritton5 at gmail.com
Alumni
Jeff Viaud (MSGP graduate)
Jeff is interested in how language mediates real-world knowledge. He is currently working on projects related to refuting misinformation by using negated and affirmative language, and how negation mediates visual salience in during scene viewing. He has mad presentation skills, and often shows off his research at conferences and to fellow students and professors. Jeff is currently employed at MedExpress Urgent Care and Concentra Urgent Care.
Contact: jveopops at gmail
Jihyeon Choi (PhD student)
Jihyeon earned her BS in biology at EWHA Women's University (Seoul, South Korea) and her MS in Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas. After earning her Master's degree, Jihyeon participated EEG research projects regarding how HD-tDCs affect cognitive inhibition control and word binding of both healthy adults and patients of multiple sclerosis and minor cognitive impairment at Center for BrainHealth (Dallas, TX). Jihyeon is interested in how bilingualism affects semantic memory system and how cognitive impairment disturbs linguistic performance and semantic knowledge.
John Hollander
John dropped in from Burlington, North Carolina. John has a certificate in Spanish Translation and Interpretation, a BA in Psychology with minors in philosophy, biology, and neuroscience from Elon University. He has an MA in Psychological Science and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He puts the rest of us to shame with his long list of accomplishments.
John previously worked as a research assistant for SportGait, a concussion management software company. John's previous research has focused on establishing measures of pausing and self-editing during the writing process as viable psychometric tools. John has done this in contexts ranging from bilingualism to death anxiety research. John's current interests include computational language modeling and employing data mining techniques to further explore topics in psycholinguistics. He is currently working with Andrew Olney & John Sabitini.
Ariel Mathis (Master's student)
Ariel is interested in bilingualism and language learning. She graduated from the MSGP program and is now pursuing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Delaware.
Contact: amathis at psych.udel.edu
Undergraduate Alumni
Beth Eberle
Lillian Hill
Dylan Turner
Alison Grimmig
Stephanie Clein
Collaborators
Keith Shubeck - University of Memphis
Alex Paxton - University of California Merced
Teenie Matlock - University of California Merced
Bob McMurray - University of Iowa
Jim Whelan - University of Memphis
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