Elise Hopman recognized with University-wide mentoring award

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…

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LCNL and collaborators at Psychonomics “Plan Reuse in Motor and Language Production”

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…

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PhD candidate Arella Gussow presents at UW-Madison Department of Psychology’s First Year Project Symposium

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.      

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Cassandra Jacobs to present at Psychonomics: MathPsych Pre-Conference Nov 14

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.…

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Wisconsin Public Television: Mark Seidenberg on “Becoming a Reader” [video]

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…

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Production Practice During Language Learning Improves Comprehension

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…

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