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Leonard Katz

Leonard Katz

Title: Professor Emeritus


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Language & Cognition

E-mail: leonard.katz@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-4303
Lab Phone: (860) 486-5971

Web site: Haskins Laboratories

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Printed word recognition
  • Cross-language studies of the reading process

Graduate courses:

  • Statistics: Experimental Design & Analysis
  • Issues in Cognitive Psychology:Memory & Cognition

Representative Publications:

  • Katz, L. (2005). Dyslexia. In Philipp Skutch (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Routledge,. 2 volumes. (ISBN: 1-57958-391-1.)

  • Katz, L., Lee, C.H., Tabor, W., Frost, S. J., Mencl, W. E., Sandak, R., Rueckl, J., & Pugh, K. R. (2005). Behavioral and Neurobiological Effects of Printed Word Repetition in Lexical Decision and Naming. Neuropsychologia. 43, 2068-2083.
    Frost, S. J., Mencl, W. E., Sandak, R., Moore, D., Rueckl, J. G., Katz, L., Fulbright, R. K., and Pugh, K. R. (2005). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the tradeoff between semantics and phonology in reading aloud. Brain Imaging, 16, 621-624.

  • Katz, L. (2005). Review of The relation of writing to spoken language. Neef, M., Neijt, A., & Sproat, R. (Eds.). Max Niemeyer Verlag: 2002, 210 pp. In Written Language & Literacy, 8 (1), 68-71.

  • Lee, C. H., Nam, K., & Katz, L. (2005). Nonselective access of spelling-sound knowledge for Korean-English bilinguals. International Journal of Psychology, 40 (6), 407-415.

Other:

  • Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, the Americdan Psychological Society
  • Member, Psychonomic Society
  • Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading