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.

Graduate Students

Jinmian Yang
Graduate Student in Psychology
Jinmianyang@ucsd.edu

I am a fourth-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 third-year graduate student at UCSD. I received B.A.s in Psychology and Classics from Washington University in St. Louis before coming to UCSD to study language production, language comprehension and cognitive processing. Over the past few years I have mostly studied serial vs. parallel extrafoveal processing in object naming. In the summer of 2009 I went to the University of Southampton, UK to study binocular coordination during reading sentences projected in depth with Simon Liversedge. I am also doing work on eye movements during visual decision-making, and morphological decomposition of words during reading.

Bernhard Angele
Graduate Student in Psychology
bangele@ucsd.edu

I am a second-year graduate student here at UCSD. I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Potsdam, Germany. I am interested in models of eye movement control during reading and have been studying the effect of parafoveal preview on processing and reading perfomance.

Post-Docs

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.

Nathalie Bélanger
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
nbelanger@psy2.ucsd.edu

I did my Ph.D. at the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders at McGill University in Montréal, Canada under the supervision of Drs. Rachel I. Mayberry and Shari R. Baum. I used masked lexical decision tasks and eye movement measures to investigate the use of orthographic and phonological information in early word processing by profoundly deaf readers of French. The goal of my thesis was to investigate the determinants of reading skill in profoundly deaf people who use sign language as their main communication mode. Future research will further investigate orthographic, phonological, morphological and semantic processing during early word recognition in deaf readers of English and relate these results to Sign Language and English proficiency.

Susanne Schuett
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

I did my Ph.D. at Durham University's Psychology Department, UK, under the supervision of Professor Charles Heywood, Dr. Kentridge, and Professor Josef Zihl. My dissertation was on the rehabilitation of hemianopic dyslexia and on the causes of the reading, visual exploration and line bisection impairments in visual field disorders after brain injury using eye movement and other behavioral measures. My research and teaching interests are in clinical and cognitive neuropsychology, with special focus on cerebral visual disorders, plasticity, aging, and reading. Currently, I am focusing on reading, aging and plasticity by investigating eye movements in younger, older, and bi-directional readers.

Other Students Associated with the Lab

Jing Shen
Graduate Student in Psychology
jshen@psy.ucsd.edu

I am a fourth-year graduate student working with Dr. Diana Deutsch. For the past few years I have been studying the similarities in pitch perception across speech and music domains. Specifically, I am interested in the mechanism of pitch processing in lexical tone perception and currently using eye-tracking method to explore this topic for my dissertation work.

Jessica Sullivan
Graduate Student in Psychology

Wen-Hsuan Chan
Graduate Student in Cognitive Science
whchan@ucsd.edu

I am a second-year graduate student at UCSD. I received a B.S. in Psychology from National Taiwan University, Taiwan. I am interested in the uncertainty of language processing and have been studying eye movements during reading and computational modeling.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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Ray Berry
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Renee Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Kevin Maher
Undergraduate Independent Researcher

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Kristen Murakami
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Catherine Park
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Helen Rho
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Nasheley Veronica
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Jullian Zlatarev
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Marinna Culter
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Jason Wu
Undergraduate Research Assistant