Lab Director: Jamie Reilly, PhD
Congratulations to our graduating UG lab volunteers. All 3 were accepted to graduate school for speech-language pathology. Charlie Yohe and Jule Long will be attending Temple University. Brianna McGrody is on her way to Towson University.
This was no easy feat. Temple had 470 applications this year for 30 spots. We're so proud of these young bucks!
Be on the Look out for this mother!
Reilly J, Peelle JE, Garcia A, & Crutch SJ (2015, in press). Linking somatic and symbolic representation in semantic memory: The Dynamic Multilevel Reactivation Framework. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
The job market that is... Congratulations to our former PhD phenom, Dr. Joshua Troche. Josh just accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at the University of Central Florida (UCF)!
Rumor has it this Neuropsychologia paper is so awesome that it has already earned Dr. Binney a knightship.
I'm so proud to report that our senior doctoral student, Joshua Troche, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Florida today. Dr. Troche examined the scaling and clustering properties of 750 English nouns using a combination of cognitive modeling and eyetracking. Way to go, Josh!
Kali Woodruff Carr (below right), my former undergraduate honors thesis phenom now with Nina Kraus at Northwestern, just published an article in PNAS on beat perception and later language abilities in kids. See recent stories in Science Magazine and Scientific American. If you have courage, read her PNAS article. Wow!
Jessica Love, a columnist at the American Scholar, just published an article on our research regarding concrete and abstract words. Link here
Amanda Garcia nailed her comprehensive exams and is now ABD. She's off to greatness in Amsterdam this week for the Neurobiology of Language conference. Congratulations Amanda!
Addendum to previous post
We bid a fond farewell to Jamie Yingst. Jamie is off to Ohio to start his PhD in Social Cognition/Psychology at the University of Toledo. Good luck, Jamie!
Our film consultant, Brian McDermott, MFA, MSW, was just invited to present his own original documentary film (Language Healers) at the CoLang conference held at the University of Texas Arlington. Here's Brian waxing philosophical in front of a crowd of bloodthirsty linguists.
Language Healers is an amazing documentary focused on language revitalization efforts among several Native American tribes. Language Healers has been making the rounds on the international film festival circuit for the last year. Brian's been killing it!
Our PhD student, Amanda Garcia, had a paper accepted to the NLC conference in Amsterdam. This was fascinating work examining lexical acquisition and lexical access for words acquired at different points across the lifespan (e.g., learning object names and proper nouns like slinky, flashdrive, 8-track, Elvis and Katy Perry). Amanda also won one of the society's coveted travel fellowships. She's an awesome scholar, and we could not be more proud. Go Amanda!
Welcome, Dr. Richard Binney. Richard is an awesome addition to the lab. He completed his PhD with Matthew Lambon Ralph and the monstrously productive Manchester semantics group. I am humbled to have Richard join us, although he didn't seem to care that I like Joy Division.
Our abstract-concrete word topography article was just accepted to a special issue of the journal, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI and linking information to come! Congratulations to first author, Joshua Troche.
I'm proud to report that our lesion mapping paper was accepted to Cognitive Neuropsychology yesterday. This was a beast of a semantics paper that took years to refine. My PhD student is convinced that this is the last paper I will ever write. She might be right.
18 degrees here makes for a morning sequestered with Adobe Illustrator. Here's a mockup of a new logo for the lab
Congratulations to two of our phd students, Joshua Troche and Jinyi Hung. These young(ish) scholars successfully passed their qualifying examinations last week. They are now considered All But Dissertation (ABD). For non-doctoral types, ABD is a status metaphorically akin to 'no man's land' in the trench warfare of WWI.
The Memory, Concepts, and Cognition Laboratory is seeking new volunteers at Temple University. If you've got the moxy*, please contact Jamie Reilly.
*in addition to "moxy", we require six hours a week in the lab. Excellent organizational skills and computer programming ability are also considered components of moxy.
I have officially moved to Philadelphia. The lab will exist simultaneously at UF and Temple University over the next couple of years.