Undergraduate Participation in
Poster Sessions,Presentations, & Publications

Undergraduate Research sponsored by Dr. Curt Burgess
Psychology Department, University of California, Riverside
(Undergraduate students' names are linked or highlighted in blue.)

Publications

(conference presentations are listed further below)

In Press

Peterson, R. R., Burgess, C., Dell, G. S., & Eberhard, K. (in press). Dissociation between syntactic and semantic processing during idiom comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Audet, C., Driessen, N., & Burgess, C. (in press). Evaluating semantic neighborhood effects in categorical and locative priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain & Cognition.


1999

Audet, C., Burgess, C., & Driessen, N. (1999). Redundant representations of categorical and locative relationships in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain & Cognition


1997

Burgess, C., Lund, K., & Kromsky, A. (1997). Examining issues in developmental psycholinguistics with a high-dimensional memory model. Psychonomics Society Abstracts, 2, 66.


1996

Atchley, R. A., Keeney, M., & Burgess, C. (1996). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms linking ambiguous word meaning reftieval with subjects varying in verbal creativity. Brain & Cognition, 32, 282-284.

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Keeney, M. (1996). Summation priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Effects of practice. Brain and Cognition, 32, 202.


1994

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Hoffman, M. (1994). Parafoveal and semantic effects on syyntactic ambiguity relolution. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 732-736). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbum Publishers.

 

1993

Burgess, C., & Skodis, J. (1993). Lexical representation for morpho-syntactic parallelism in the left hemisphere. Brain and Language, 44, 129-138.

 

1992

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Marks, N. (1992). Orthographic and semantic similarity in auditory rhyme decisions. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 732-736). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Publishers.

Conference Presentations


1998

Audet, C., Burgess, C., & Driessen, N. (1998). Redundant representations of categorical and locative relationships in the cerebral hemispheres. Paper presented at TENNET IX, Ninth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.


Seventh Annual UCLA Undergraduate Research Conference
Winter 1998

de Anda, L., & Contreras, L. Measuring Conflict Among Roommates: The Effect of Gender and Ethnicity.

Chang, O. The Effects of Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Interpersonal Closeness of Young Adults and their Parents.

Castaneda, A. The Effect of Experimenter Gender, Semantic Density, and Sexual Connotation on the Production of Word Associations.

Hage, D. Effects of proper name gender on the retrieval of proper names.

1997

Burgess, C., Lund, K., & Kromsky, A. (1997). Examining issues in developmental psycholinguistics with a high-dimensional memory model. Paper presented at the Psychonomics Society Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
-- Ok. Ann isn't really an undergraduate. She was 15 when she started her Museum of Science and Industry Fellowship in the lab. She won that fellowship and a $4,000 scholarship! She started the HALjr project and in 1998 won 8th place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search - a $10,000 scholarship. (to quote Ann..."Science pays!")

Audet, C., Driessen, N., & Burgess, C. (1997). Evaluating semantic neighborhood effects in categorical and locative priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Paper presented at TENNET VIII, Eighth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Sixth Annual UCLA Undergraduate Research Conference
Spring 1997.

Coate, C. W. Can human emotions be computationally modeled?

Vo, T. Modeling semantic priming in a schizophrenic computer simulation.

Pleasant, J. Oculomotor patterns may provide an non-subjective measure for eyewitness accuracy.


1996

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Keeney, M. (1996). Summation priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Effects of practice. Paper presented at TENNET VII, Seventh Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Atchley, R. A., Keeney, M., & Burgess, C. (1996). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms linking ambiguous word meaning reftieval with subjects varying in verbal creativity. Paper presented at TENNET VII, Seventh Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.


1995

Atchley, R.A., Burgess, C., Audet, C., & Arambel, S. (May, 1995). Effects of Timecourse and Context on the Processing of Lexical Ambiguity in the Cerebral Hemispheres. Paper presented at TENNET VI, Sixth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Burgess, C., Clark, S.E., Audet, C., & Livesay, K. (March, 1995). Eyewitness Interpretation of an Ambiguous Event: Bias and Gender Effects. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Los Angeles.

Monthei, E., Atchley, R.A., & Burgess, C. (March, 1995). Effects of Ambiguity on Story Recall: Implications for Eyewitness Testimony. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Los Angeles.

Arambel, S. , & Burgess, C. (March, 1995). Cerebral Asymmetries in Producing Semantic Paralexias with Ambiguous Words. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Los Angeles.


1994

Burgess, C., Atchley, R. A., Audet, C., & Arambel, S. (November, 1994). Cerebral Hemispheric Mechanisms of Lexical Ambiguity: Dominance and Sentence Context Effects. Paper presented at the Psychonomics Society Meeting, St. Louis, MO.

Bonnet, A., & Burgess, C. (August, 1994). Cerebral Asymmetries in the Retrieval of Mediated Concepts. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, Los Angeles.

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M., & Hoffman, M. (August, 1994). Parafoveal and Semantic Effects on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Schwagler, J. (May, 1994). Age of Reading Acquisition Does Not Affect Semantic Priming. Paper presented at TENNET V, Fifth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Bonnet, A., & Goldstein, S. (May, 1994). A Right Hemisphere Locus for Mediated Semantic Priming? Paper presented at TENNET V, Fifth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Third Annual UCLA Undergraduate Research Conference
Spring 1994

Bonnet, A. Presuppositional language: Influence on child eyewitness testimony.

Bonnet, A. Cerebral asymmetries in the retrieval of mediated concepts.

UCR Minority Summer Research Internship Program: Student Abstracts
1994

Arambel, S. Cerebral asymmetries in the procuction of semantic paralexias with ambiguous word meanings.
-- Received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and is now a Ph.D. student at UCR.


1993

Burgess, C., Hoffman, M., Tanenhaus, M., & Lund, K. (November, 1993). Parafoveal Effects on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Preposition Length. Paper presented at the Psychonomics Society Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Second Annual UCLA Undergraduate Research Conference
Spring 1993

Bonnet, A., & Bobroff, M. Priming effects in true and false statements..

Christo, L., & Schwartz, J., Paternal absence as a determining factor in introverted females.

Kavanagh, S. D. Recall of brand names from ambiguous advertisements.

Young, J., & McCormick, M., Physical attractiveness and gender as variables in salesclerks' response time.


1992

Burgess, C., Shaibe, D. M., Li, M., & Peterson, R.R. (November, 1992). Interaction of Thematic and Lexical Information in Parsing: A Connectionist Account. Paper presented at the Psychonomics Society Meeting, St. Louis, MO.

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Marks, N. (August, 1992). Orthographic and semantic similarity in auditory rhyme decisions. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society annual meeting, Bloomington, IN.

Burgess, C., & Sanders, J. (1992). The Partial Failure of Referential Support in Disambiguating Prepositional-phrase Attachment Ambiguities. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Burgess, C., Troffkin, B., & Fitzgerald, S. (1992). Evidence for Phonological Mediation using Non-homographic Homophones during Online Sentence Comprehension. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Burgess, C., & Pomella, K. (1992). Context Effects of Adjacent Text During the Interpretation of Ambiguous Advertisements. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Burgess, C., Troy, J., Durr, A.L., Dohn, A.H., & Bucolo, J. (1992). Online Use of Age and Gender Information during Sentence Comprehension. Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.


1991

Burgess, C., Peterson, R.R., Sanders, J., & Forsythe, W. (May, 1991). A Left Hemisphere Locus for Backward Priming? Paper presented at TENNET II, Second Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Burgess, C., & Skodis, J. (1991). Lexical evidence for syntactic parallelism in the left hemisphere. Paper presented at TENNET II, Second Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.


Twenty Sixth Annual New York State Undergraduate Research Conference
April 1991

Troy, J., & Bucolo, J., Lexical and Semantic Processing of Gender and Age Bias in Language.

Fitzgerald, S., & Troffkin, B., Lexical Access Modality and Heterographic Homophones.

Krauss, A., & Manion, A., Semantic and Pragmatic Level Sentence Context Effects on Lexical Ambiguity Access.

Sautter, C. A., Associative Links Between Concepts Utilized in the Comprehension of Metaphors.

Sanders, J. L., Discourse Constraints on Minimal Attachment Parsing Preferences.

Pan, R., Exploring the Link Between Color and Emotion.

Fullerton, S. J., Field Dependence/Field Independence and its Effect on the Recognition of Ambiguous Words.

Cannon, K., & Shaibe, D., Do We Retrieve Arithmatic Facts From A Network System?

Forsythe, W. J., & Sanders, J., Making Backward Inferences in the Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres.

Lindfield, K. C., Is the Appreciation of Metaphoric Word Meanings in Intact Humans a Consequence of Right Hemisphere Processing?

Melnick, S., & Galbiote, S., Do Distinctive Emotional Categories Exist in the Right and Left Hemispheres?


1989

Peterson, R. R., Burgess, C., Dell, G. S., Eberhard, K. (April, 1989). Dissociation of Syntactic and Semantic Analyses During Idiom Processing. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.


1988

Shenkman, K., Burgess, C., O'Conner, K., Chu, J., Bruegger, G., Roitblat, H., & Bever, T. (November, 1988). Complexity and cerebral asymmetries in latent learning of cognitive maps. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Marks, N. (April, 1988). Orthographic and semantic similarity in auditory rhyme decisions. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Buffalo, NY.

Marks, N., Durr, A., & Burgess, C. (April, 1988). Is the semantic processing of emotional valence in words really automatic? Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Buffalo, NY.
-- Amy went on to get a Masters in Nursing and is now at Duke University.

Durr, A., & Burgess, C. (April, 1988). A proprioceptive account of the decrement effect in the Mueller-Lyer illusion. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Buffalo, NY.

Burgess, C., & Rosen, A. (April, 1988). Priming of emotional words in the cerebral hemispheres. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Linguistic Studies Conference on Language and Communication, Syracuse, NY.


1987

Peterson, R. R., Burgess, C., Dell, G. S., & Eberhard, K. (November, 1987). Syntactic processing occurs in idiom comprehension. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Seattle, WA.
-- Kathy is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Twenty Second Annual New York State Undergraduate Research Conference
April 1987

These papers were lab projects completed in the cognition lab under the supervision of Dr. Burgess while he was at the University of Rochester.

O'Brien, J. Thematic roles in language processing.
Received a Ph.D. from UCSC and is now an Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College.

Iverson, P. Function and content words: hemispheric asymmetries demonstrated through language comprehension tasks.
Received a Ph.D. from Cornell and now on the faculty at ?.

Glow, S. The relation of cerebral organization to family sinistrality.

Auer, E. The effects of schemata on memory for temporally related lists.
Ed got his Ph.D. at SUNY-Buffalo and is now a research scientist.

Marks, N. Retrieval of emotional information: It can't be helped.
Nancy went on to get an MBA.

Trueswell, J. Processing spatial information from mental images using visual illusions.
John is now an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania.

Rosen, A. This student of Dr.~Burgess's sent her paper to the 1988 NY State Undergraduate Psychology Conference, but the record of that paper's title is lost.
Amy went to graduate school at Harvard.