Talks
Pfeifer, V. A. (2024). Are women really (not) more talkative than men?. Invited talk at WiDS (Women in Data Science) Tucson, 2024, Tucson, AZ, March 29th.
Pfeifer, V. A., Chilton, P. C., Grilli, M. D., & Mehl, M. R. (2023). What Language reveals about Aging Well. Talk presented at WiDS (Women in Data Science) Tucson 2023, Tucson, AZ, April 20.
*Pfeifer, V.A., Maytorena, S. & Lai, V.T. (2021). The Impact of Verbal Irony on Negativity Over Time. Talk presented at 29th Annual GPSC student showcase, online, February 26. *Best in category
*Pfeifer, V.A., & Lai, V.T. (2020). Say what you don’t mean. The Psychology of Verbal Irony. Talk presented at Annual Psychology Data Blitz, Tucson, December 5. *Best graduate presentation
Pfeifer, V.A., Armstrong. E. L., & Lai, V. T. (2020). Emojis and Text: An ERP study. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science Showcase, Tucson, May 1.
Poster Presentations
Bernal, A., Klinz, J. L., Pfeifer, V.A., & Mehl, M. R. (2024). Initial findings of a comprehensive validation of a foreground speech detection algorithm for everyday conversation detection. Poster at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention – Psychology of Media and Technology Preconference, San Diego, CA, February 8.
Pfeifer, V. A., Chilton, P. C., Grilli, M. D., & Mehl, M. R. (2024). Evaluating the validity of AI-produced versus human-cleaned transcripts of spoken language for psychological text analysis in younger and older adults. Poster at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention – Psychology of Media and Technology Preconference, San Diego, CA, February 8.
Naffah, A., Pfeifer, V. A., & Mehl, M. R. (2024). Feel Flows: Tracking Depressive Language Patterns through the Lyrics of Brian Wilson. Poster at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, February 8-10.
Pfeifer, V. A., Mehl, M., & Lai, V. T. (2024). Impact of Language and Self-Construal on Irony Perception in Spanish-English Bilinguals. Poster at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, February 8-10.
Pyarelal, A., Duong, E., Jones-Shibu, C., Soares, P., Boyd, S., Khosla, P., Pfeifer, V., Zhang, D., Andrews, E., Champlin, R., Raymond, V., Krishnaswamy, M., Morrison, C., Butler, E., Barnard, K. (2023). The Theory of Mind-based cognitive architecture for teams (ToMCAT) dataset. Poster presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, New Orleans, LA. December.
Cay, G., Pfeifer, V., Lee, M., Dehghan Rouzi, M., Nunes A., Mishra, R., Finco, M., El-Refaei, N., Momin, A., Atique, M., Mehl, M., Vaziri, A. & Najafi, B. (2023). Toward a Remote Assessment of Cognitive Impairment using Digital Speech Features. Poster presented at IEEE-BSN, Cambridge, October 9.
Baiocco, L., Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2023). Emotionality and Task Goals influence Metaphor Processing: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). Pittsburg, PA, March.
Pfeifer, V. A., Chilton, P. C., Grilli, M. D., & Mehl, M. R. (2022). What Language reveals about Aging Well. Poster presented at APRC 2022 (Arizona Postdoctoral Research Conference), Tucson, AZ, September 22.
Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Irony Regulates Negative Emotion – in Speakers and Listeners. Short Talk presented at ELM 2 (Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 2), Philadelphia, PA, May 18-20.
Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Irony as a form of Emotion Regulation – Evidence from Behavior and ERPs. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), virtual, March 24-26.
Pfeifer, V.A., Maytorena, S., & Lai, V.T. (2021). What Irony Reveals about a Speaker’s Mental State: Impact of Timing and Context Emotion. Poster to be presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, virtual, November 4-7. video presentation
Pfeifer, V.A., Armstrong. E. L., & Lai, V. T. (2020). An ERP Investigation of the Effects of Emoji Valence on Text Processing. Poster presented at the Twelfth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, virtual, October 21-24
Sendek, K., Herzmann, G., Donahoo, S., Pfeifer, V., & Lai, V. (2020). The impact of acquisition context on the affective perception of swear words. Poster presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, May 1-4. (virtual)
Donahoo, S. A., Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2020). Composing expressive information in context is damn tricky. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, March 19-21. (virtual)
Valenzuela, C., Garcia, A., Lopez, M., Maytorena, S., Pfeifer, V. A. & Lai, V. T. (2020). Neural Correlates of Visual Metaphor Processing: Introduction. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Phoenix, March 3, 2020. * Best poster award, 2nd place
Garcia, A., Valenzuela, C., Lopez, M., Maytorena, S., Pfeifer, V. A. & Lai, V. T. (2020). Neural Correlates of Visual Metaphor Processing: Design & Materials. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Phoenix, March 3, 2020. * Best poster award, 2nd place
Lopez, M., Valenzuela, C., Garcia, A., Maytorena, S., Pfeifer, V. A. & Lai, V. T. (2020). Neural Correlates of Visual Metaphor Processing: Results. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Phoenix, March 3, 2020.
Pfeifer, V.A., Armstrong, E.L., Fellous, J.M. and Lai, V.T. (2019): The influence of Emoji on Text Processing. Poster presented at the 7th Annual ASU/UA Cognitive Science Conclave in Tucson, December 7, 2019.
Donahoo, S., Pfeifer, V.A. and Lai, V.T. (2019): Concepts be damned! New insights from expressive adjectives. Poster presented at the 7th Annual ASU/UA Cognitive Science Conclave in Tucson, December 7, 2019.
Pfeifer, V.A. and Lai, V.T. (2019): Emotion Regulation through Irony: Evidence from Behavior and ERPs. Poster presented (1) at the 32nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference in Boulder, March 29-31, 2019. (2) at Psychology Department Annual Spring Master's Research Forum in Tucson, April 18, 2019 * Best poster award (3) at GIDP Graduate student showcase in Tucson, December 3, 2019.