Jamie Reilly, PhD
professor and Lab Director
Jamie Reilly is a Professor and Director of the Concepts & Cognition Laboratory at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Jamie's undergraduate training was in Anthropology and Russian Language at Tulane University. After college, he moved to Seoul South Korea and taught English to elementary school students before completing an MA in Speech-Language Pathology. During Jamie’s clinical training, he grew interested in memory disorders impacting conceptual knowledge. Jamie subsequently completed a PhD in Cognitive Psychology (Temple University) followed by an NIH/NIA T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Pennsylvania).
From 2007 to 2013, Jamie served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Florida where he taught courses and worked in an outpatient memory disorders clinic as an SLP for progressive language impairments. In about 2012, the political winds in Florida were howling in a scary direction, and Jamie decided to depart for much greener pastures at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has since worked in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders with a courtesy appointment in psychology.
Jamie remains clinically licensed as an SLP but these days many of his interests have swung toward more basic science ventures in psycho- and neurolinguistics.