Jason will be presenting his poster titled “Music and Linguistic Semantic Anomalies: An ERP Study of Integration & Expectancy on Predictive Processing of Harmonic Music During A Self-Paced Reading Task” at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in August. Congratulations Jason!

Congratulations to Sara, Brian, Martín, and Liz for having the paper titled “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Foveal Processing is Necessary for Semantic Integration of Words into Sentence Context” accepted for publication at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance! A lot of hard work went into this, great job!

Congratulations Frances for being accepted to give a talk at the Human Sentence Processing conference! Her talk is titled “What do the eye-movements of skilled Deaf readers reveal about bilingual readers?”. We’re all looking forward to it!

Congratulations to Nesli, Sara, and Liz on getting Nesli’s honors thesis, titled “Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials” accepted for publication at Brain and Language. Great work!

Congratulations to Victoria, Sara, and Liz on publishing Victoria’s honors thesis with the USF Psychology Honors Program in Psychophysiology! Her project is titled “Event-related potentials show that parafoveal vision is insufficient for semantic integration”. 

This year’s Psychonomics meeting was held at Boston, Massachusetts. EMaC Lab members presented the results from their most recent projects.

On Thursday, Sara presented her poster titled: ” Parafoveal processing provides a head start on word recognition and reduces foveal N400 effects”

On Friday, Brian presented his poster titled: “Investigating the relationship between language skill and semantic vs. orthographic processing: Evidence from the N400 ERP component”,

and Frances presented her poster titled: “Length, frequency, and predictability: The Big 3 and skilled deaf readers”.

On Saturday, Nesli Presented her poster titled: “ERPs reveal that lexical familiarity only matters in the absence of expectations”.

Casey, Hannah and Katie presented their posters at the 10th Annual USF Psychology Expo!

Congratulations to Dr. Schotter for being recognized by the University of South Florida with an Outstanding Research Achievement Award!

The EMaC lab has finally held their first in-person lab party of the past two years to celebrate their finished projects, accepted manuscripts and all other achievements! During the party, the lab members got the chance to meet with Evan (the youngest RA of the lab)!

The lab is excited to get started on a project, in collaboration with Karen Emmorey’s lab at San Diego State University, which investigates the visual and linguistic factors that predict the size of the perceptual span in hearing and deaf readers.