Susan M. Garnsey
Division:
Cognitive
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Head for Graduate Affairs, Associate Professor of Psychology
Beckman Institute
Contact Information:
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Address: University of Illinois
Dept. of Psychology, MC-716
323 Psychology Bldg.
603 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, IL 61820
USA - Telephone: (217) 333-0022
- garnsey@illinois.edu
Research Description
Language processing: the comprehension of sentences in isolation and in discourse; the resolution of syntactic and lexical ambiguity and context effects on that resolution; the effect of prosody on disambiguation; on-line techniques for measuring language comprehension, including eye-movement monitoring and event-related brain potentials; word recognition; language/brain relationships.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Rochester