David Race

618 Psychology Bldg University of Wisconsin-Madison Dept of Psychology (WJ Brogden Hall) 1202 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1696 E-Mail: drace@lcnl.wisc.edu Phone: (608) 262-1897 Fax: (608) 262-4029

Graduate Student in Psychology

BA Psychology/Linguistics 1999 University of Southern California

Research Statement:

I'm currently a fifth year student in the graduate program of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the fall of 2001 I transferred along with my advisor Dr. Maryellen C. MacDonald from the University of Southern California.

My area of interest is in sentence processing, which focuses on how people are able to produce and comprehend sentences. In production I'm interested in how factors such as accessibility (the ease with which a word or phrase can be activated) and incrementality (the phenomena that a sentence can begin to be produced before it is completely planned), affect the structure of the final utterance. In comprehension, I'm interested in discovering how factors (semantic, syntactic, frequency distribution, etc.) interact to help comprehenders avoid ambiguity. Also, my interests lie in the overlap and interaction between the production and comprehension s systems.

Papers/Posters/Talks:

Race, D. S. & MacDonald, M. C. (2001). The Role of "that" in the production and comprehension of object relative clauses. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Cuny Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Race, D. S. & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). Structural priming from non-structural overlap? Priming reduced relatives with unambiguous passives. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Cuny Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Race, D. S. & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). The use of "that" in the production and comprehension of object relative clauses. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.