Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesVillanova University
Drew J. McLaughlinis an experimental researcher who leverages behavioral, physiological, and neuroscientific methods to examine complex auditory processing.
Her research primarily examines the cognitive mechanisms that support adaptation to foreign accent, with additional focus on multilingual code-switching and implicit knowledge of talker, race, and accent covariation.
Drew is an expert in cognitive pupillometry. Those interested in recordings of the BCBL 2024 Pupillometry Workshop (including R and PsychoPy walkthroughs) can find them in the Pupillometry tab.
Recent Publications
2025 McLaughlin& Samuel Lettuce entertain you: Assessing Sandwich Builder as a measure of auditory short-term memory
Sandwich Builder A Gamified Research Tool for Measuring Auditory Short-term Memory Funded by a Gorilla & Prolific Research Grant See the Psychonomic Society feature of this project here. Sandwich Builder is readily available on Gorilla’s Open Materials and easy to add to your next Gorilla experiment! The peer-reviewed article assessing Sandwich Builder as a research tool is openly availablehere. Learn more about the process of creating Sandwich Builder with Gorilla's Game Builder features in thisGorilla webinar!