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Rubiarbriana Jamison named representative to the Department of Psychology Board of Visitors

May 2, 2019 June 30, 2019News

LCNL undergraduate Rubiarbriana (Rubi) Jamison has been named the undergraduate representative to the Psych Department’s Board of Visitors! There were many nominations, and getting selected is a real testament to Rubi’s intelligence and poise. The BoV is a group of Department alumni, donors, and supporters who help the Department plan…

LCNL will be at CUNY in Boulder next week

March 21, 2019 June 30, 2019News

LCNL will be at the CUNY 2019 human sentence processing conference in Boulder, Colorado next week to present several projects. If you’re visiting the conference and you are interested in applying for the post-doc position in our lab that professor Maryellen MacDonald is advertising right now, feel free reach out to her beforehand…

LCNL undergraduate Jamie Dawson will speak at winter commencement

December 11, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Congratulations to graduating senior Jamie Dawson, who was chosen as the student speaker at the winter commencement. Jamie double majored in Psychology and Afro-American studies. In our lab, she worked with Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald on a project investigating how people learn to quickly tune in to accented speech. You can…

APM Reports featuring Mark Seidenberg. Hard Words: Why aren’t kids being taught to read?

November 1, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Check out this informative report on the science, history, and reality of reading instruction in the United States. What does science say about how humans learn to read? How should reading be taught? How are teachers being prepared to teach? Why does this matter so much? Hear what Mark Seidenberg…

Two LCNL Projects at 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

October 31, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Two LCNL projects will be presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, held in New Orleans, November 15-18, 2018. Collaborators Natalie Schwob and Amy Lebkuecher will present a cross-disciplinary, multi-university collaboration by Natalie Schwob, Amy Lebkuecher, Misty Kabasa, Joy Kwon, Andrea Mason, Maryellen MacDonald, and Dan Weiss,…

LCNL research at CogSci 2018 in Madison

July 29, 2018 June 30, 2019News

CogSci 2018 was hosted here at University of Wisconsin-Madison July 25th-28th, and our lab presented multiple posters and talks at the conference. Talks: “Word Frequency Can Affect What You Choose to Say” – by Mark Koranda, Martin Zettersten, and Maryellen MacDonald (6 page conference paper) “Predictors of L2 word learning accuracy: A…

Best student talk at ISBPAC 2018

June 17, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Congratulations to Elise Hopman for winning ‘best student talk’ at the the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2018) in Braunschweig, Germany, May 24-25 2018. The talk presented data on a new condition that mixes production and comprehension training, in the context of earlier work showing that…

Language learning poster at IWLP 2018

June 6, 2018 June 30, 2019News

LCNL graduate student Elise Hopman will be presenting a poster on the role of production in language learning at the International Workshop on Language Production (IWLP) 2018, which will be held July 2-4 at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. “A little production practice provides a big boost in language…

A talk and a poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders

June 1, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Our lab will be be presenting a talk and a poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF), June 4th & 5th hosted by Ghent University in Belgium. “The effects of accented speech on learning” – by Teresa Turco, Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald will be presented as a talk (T3.4) on Monday June 4th…

Teresa Turco wins Fulbright Scholarship

May 25, 2018 June 30, 2019News

Dr. Maryellen MacDonald with Teresa Turco at the UW-Madison Psychology Undergraduate Graduation Reception, 2018.

Graduating Senior Teresa Turco recently won a Fulbright scholarship to study abroad at Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She also won an Undergraduate Travel Award from the UW-Madison Psychology Department for her upcoming conference presentation in Belgium. Additionally she was awarded the UW Bookstore Academic Excellence Award for her senior thesis. Very happy results for her excellent work with Maryellen MacDonald and Elise Hopman!