Home Page of Psycholinguistics West

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University of Arizona
Communications Building
Room 314

520-626-8187

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Depts. of Psychology, Cognitive Science and Linguistics


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Personnel Research

Publications


Undergraduate Assistantships Affiliated Labs and Faculty Interesting Links



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Personnel
 

 

Lab Head Janet Nicol, PhD nicol@email.arizona.edu
 

 

Graduate and Post Graduate Students Christine Mahoney, M.A.
Psychology Dept.
cmahoney@email.arizona.edu
Patrick Bolger, M.A.
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Dept.
pbolger@email.arizona.edu
Jason Barker, PhD
Psychology Dept.
jbarker@email.arizona.edu
Kumiko Nakamura, M.A.
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Dept.
kumiko@email.arizona.edu

 

 

 

Lab Mascot Tess the Wonder Dog

 

Research Programs and Interests


Our lab is interested in understanding the underlying cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding written and spoken language.  Our studies focus both on monolingual and bilingual speakers, typically of either English, Chinese or Spanish.  Methodologies include strictly behavioral tasks as well as eye tracking.

 

 

Publications and Presentations



Undergraduate Research Assistants

Our lab regularly enlists the assistance of undergraduates in conducting our research.  Students learn about all phases of conducting psychological experiments by helping us test participants, construct materials, read background primary source literature, and analyze data.  Typically, junior or senior level students are involved, but if you are an interested and motivated freshman or sophomore, you are also welcome to inquire.  In addition to the general experience gained, dedicated students are able to secure personal and detailed letters of recommendation for use in applying to graduate school or for employment.

Commitments range from 1 to 3 credits per semester which translates to between 3 and 9 hours of in lab work per week.  In addition, students are expected to write a short (5ish pages) paper summarizing some of the research they have done over their semester.

If you are interested, please send e-mail to Dr. Janet Nicol at the address listed above.  

 

Affiliated Labs and Faculty

Psycholinguistics East


Dr. Kenneth I. Forster, Depts. of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona
Dr. Merrill F. Garrett, Depts. of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona


Dr. Andrew Barss (Syntactician Extraordinaire),  Dept. of Linguistics, University of Arizona

 

 

Interesting Links

University of Arizona
DMDX Homepage
The Child Language Data Exchange System
Miriam-Webster Dictionary On-Line