Dr. Elizabeth R. Schotter received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida, where she directs the Eye Movements and Cognition Lab. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying reading and language processing, with particular emphasis on parafoveal processing, predictive language processing, adaptation to task goals, and the coordination of eye movements and brain processes during natural reading. Her work employs several advanced cognitive neuroscience techniques, such as eye tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), and “co-registration” of eye tracking and EEG. More recently, her work has examined reading efficiency and the distribution of visual attention in deaf readers. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has been published in leading journals including Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychophysiology, and Journal of Memory and Language.
Dr. Schotter has delivered invited talks and keynote presentations at major international conferences and research centers, including UC San Diego, Penn State University, University of Connecticut, University of Colorado Boulder, Macquarie University, University of Florida, Florida State University, New York University, the European Conference on Eye Movements, the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, the Gordon Research Conference, and the MultiplEYE Final Conference. She has contributed to advances in co-registration methods linking eye movements and fixation-related brain potentials and has played a leading role in research on the flexibility and plasticity of the reading system.
She serves in editorial and professional service roles across the fields of psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, and has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate researchers whose work has been recognized at national and international conferences.
Recent Awards
2026 WLP USF Tampa Faculty Excellence Award
The EMaC Lab 