Keith Rayner
Atkinson Professor of Psychology
krayner@ucsd.edu
858-822-7814

I started at UCSD in 2008. Before then I was at UMass, Amherst starting in 1978 (previously at the University of Rochester). I am primarily interested in the process of skilled reading and use eye movement data to make inferences about perceptual and cognitive processes. I am also interested in various issues in psycholinguistics (resolution of ambiguity, discourse processing) and in scene perception and visual search.

Timothy Slattery
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
tslattery@ucsd.edu

I earned my Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 2007 from the UMass, Amherst under the guidance of Alexander Pollatsek. My research has focused primarily on eye movements during reading, and I am interested in advancing psycholinguistics through the implementation and testing of computational models. Recent projects have explored lexical variables such as ambiguity and neighbor frequency, and I proposed a parallel between these lexical variables in my dissertation. I am currently exploring the affect of letter and word spacing on eye movements as well as the use of distributional analyses in the study of eye movements during reading.

Jinmian Yang
Graduate Student in Psychology
Jinmianyang@ucsd.edu

I am a third-year graduate student at Umass, Amherst. I have completed my comprehensive exams and working on my dissertation at UCSD. I am interested in eye movements during reading. In the past two years, I have studied the time course of activation and integration of background information in discourse comprehension and parafoveal processing during Chinese reading. Now I am exploring factors that may affect word recognition during reading.

Elizabeth Schotter
Graduate Student in Psychology
eschotter@ucsd.edu

I am a second year graduate student at UCSD. I received a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis before coming to UCSD to study language production, language comprehension and cognitive processing. Over the past year I have mostly studied serial vs. parallel extrafoveal processing in a multiple object naming task.

Marinna Culter
Undergraduate Research Assistant
mcutler@ucsd.edu

Kevin Maher
Undergraduate Research Assistant
kpmaher@ucsd.edu

Jason Wu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
jasonwu87@gmail.com