Drew J. McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral ResearcherMarie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

 

Drew J. McLaughlin is an experimental researcher who leverages behavioral, physiological, and neuroscientific methods to draw conclusions about cognitive and linguistic processes.

Her research primarily examines inter-accent communication, code-switching in multilingual listeners, and how listeners leverage implicit social knowledge of talker, race, and accent covariation during speech processing. 

Drew is an expert in cognitive pupillometry. She recently organized and led the BCBL 2024 Pupillometry Workshop. All materials (including R and PsychoPy walkthroughs) and video tutorials are available in the Pupillometry tab.

 

 

Recent Publications

2024
McLaughlin, Baese-Berk, & Van Engen
Exploring effects of brief daily exposure to unfamiliar accent on listening performance and cognitive load

View
2024
McLaughlin & Van Engen
Social priming of speech perception: The role of individual differences in implicit racial and ethnic associations

View
2024
McLaughlin, Colvett, Bugg, & Van Engen
Sequence effects and speech processing: Cognitive load for speaker-switching within and across accents 

View

 

 

Recent News

Gorilla & Prolific Research Grant 

Sandwich Builder: A Gamified Assessment Tool for Language Research

Using Gorilla’s Game Builder, I have developed a "gamified" short-term memory assessment tool called Sandwich Builder
The manuscript for Sandwich Builder, Lettuce Entertain You, is under review! The pre-print can be found here.
The Sandwich Builder task has been made available to other researchers through Gorilla’s Open Materials
Learn more about the process of creating Sandwich Builder in this Gorilla webinar!