Congratulations to the Class of 2012 Graduates! We are proud of your achievements and we will miss you. The Psychology Department graduation ceremony featured invited speakers, students awards, and presentation of graduation certificates to graduating seniors. Alison M. Robey (pictured, left) delivered the Senior Address to her fellow classmates. (more…)

Consider the very first moment of your arrival into this world. The room around you is buzzing and booming with human voices—the words of nurses, doctors, and your mother, all commenting on the newcomer. While you cannot decipher a single word, you probably notice that their voices convey sound patterns—much research shows that newborns and even preborn infants in their mother’s uterus track sound patterns. You might recognize that some sounds occur frequently (e.g., p, t), whereas others (e.g., j) are rare, and that sounds follow each other in predictable ways (e.g., blog, but not lbog), just like beads on a necklace. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Neal Pearlmutter has been appointed Director of the Linguistics Program, starting Fall 2012. Professor Pearlmutter is a member of the Language and Cognition Area in the Department of Psychology and currently serves as advisor for Combined Majors in Computer Science, Information Science, ASL, and Linguistics. For more information about the Linguistics program visit their website here. (more…)

Congratulations to the second year Psychology Graduate Students for successfully completing their Masters’ presentations! Each student presented a talk on their current research to department faculty, fellow graduate students and guests. Great job everyone! (more…)