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James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson
Title: Associate Professor
Departmental Program:
Perception, Action, Cognition: Language & Cognition
E-mail: james.magnuson@uconn.edu
Office: Bousfield 119
Phone: (860) 486-3525
Website: http://magnuson.psy.uconn.edu/
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
Preferred Means of Contact: Email |
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Research Interests:
- Spoken language comprehension (speech perception, word recognition,
sentence processing)
- Reading and reading disability
- Language development
- Categorization
- Learning
- Object and scene perception
- Research tools:
- Eye tracking
- EEG (ERP)
- Connectionist networks and other computer simulation tools
Undergraduate courses:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Principles of Research in Psychology
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Graduate courses:
- Cognition
- The Mental Lexicon
- Special topics: Time course methods
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Representative Publications:
- Viswanathan, N., Fowler, C. A., & Magnuson, J. S. (in press). A critical examination
of the spectral contrast account of compensation for coarticulation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
- Magnuson, J.S., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Aslin, R.N. (2008).
Immediate effects of form-class constraints on spoken word recognition. Cognition, 108(3), 866-873.
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Mirman, D., Magnuson, J.S., Graf Estes, K., and Dixon, J.A. (2008).
The
link between statistical segmentation and word learning in adults.
Cognition, 108(1), 271-280.
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Mirman, D., Dixon, J. A., & Magnuson, J. S. (2008).
Statistical and computational models of the visual world paradigm:
Growth curves and individual differences. Journal of Memory & Language,
59(4), 475-494.
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Mirman, D. & Magnuson, J.S. (2008).
Attractor
dynamics and semantic neighborhood density: Processing is slowed by
near neighbors and speeded by distant neighbors. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 65-79.
- Magnuson, J.
S., Dixon, J., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Aslin, R. N. (2007).
The dynamics of lexical competition during spoken word recognition.
Cognitive Science, 31, 133-156.
- Magnuson,J. S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007).
Acoustic differences, listener expectations, and the perceptual accommodation
of talker variability.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
33, 391-409.
- Chambers, C. G., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Magnuson, J. S. (2004).
Actions and affordances in syntactic ambiguity resolution.
Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 687-696.
- Magnuson, J. S., Tanenhaus, M. K., Aslin, R. N., and Dahan, D. (2003).
The time course of spoken word recognition and learning: Studies with artificial
lexicons. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 132(2),
202-227.
Other:
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