LCNL graduate student Elise Hopman has been awarded this year’s University of Wisconsin-Madison Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities for her excellence in mentoring. Elise’s mentees have spoken at University-wide events, participated in summer research and study abroad programs, won department, university and national awards. Working in LCNL, her research assistants have…
Mark Seidenberg was interviewed for a Washington Post article on the recent revival of “the reading wars” – the debate about the role of phonics in reading instruction. The enduring debate involves those who study the scientifically studied bases of the human ability to read — psychologists, linguists, and cognitive…
LCNL and collaborators from Penn State’s Language and Cognition Lab will present “Plan Reuse in Motor and Language Production” at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Montreal on Thursday, November 14, 2019. Authors: Amy L. Lebkuecher, Pennsylvania State University, Natalie Schwob, Pennsylvania State University, Misty Kabasa and…
PhD candidate and LCNL research fellow Arella Gussow successfully defended her first year research project and presented the talk “Serial Ordering in Language and Motor Action” at the 34th annual First Year Project Symposium at UW-Madison Department of Psychology on November 01, 2019. See the program here.
LCNL postdoctoral researcher Cassandra Jacobs will present at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychononic Society in Montreal. Her talk is “The Lexical Context Model: A continuous bag of words model of semantic and episodic memory”. It will be part of the Psychonomic Society Pre-Conference, Current Trends in Mathematical Psychology.…
Mark Seidenberg discusses how to help children become skilled readers, on University Place, Wisconsin Public Television’s virtual lecture hall series. Upcoming air times, 2019: Thursday, October 17 7:55 am on The Wisconsin Channel Sunday, October 27 3:55 am on WPT Tuesday, November 12 2:00 pm on The Wisconsin Channel Tuesday, November…
Mark Seidenberg spoke with Reading Rockets to answer 13 important questions about the science of reading. Launched in 2001, Reading Rockets is an education initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation’s capital. Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and…
Mark Seidenberg discusses past and current reading science, the history and politics of reading instruction, and his own scientific background and book: Language at the Speed of Sight – How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, And What Can Be Done About It. Check out the engaging Q&A here –…
Our lab published a paper today in the journal Psychological Science by Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald titled “Production Practice During Language Learning Improves Comprehension”. Abstract Language learners often spend more time comprehending than producing a new language. However, memory research suggests reasons to suspect that production practice might provide a…
This Friday, April 13th in Union South the undergraduate symposium will feature four senior thesis presentations connected with LCNL (full program here). Teresa Turco will present a talk titled ‘The Effects of Accented Speech on Knowledge Acquisition’ at 9:30 am in the Alumni room. Her senior thesis was conducted in LCNL under…
