Andrea E. Martin
Doctoral Candidate, New York University
Department of Psychology: Cognition & Perception
andrea.martin@nyu.edu

Interests

memory and attention in sentence processing, parsing, cue-based retrieval and dependency resolution

Education

2006 - Present Ph.D. Candidate

2006 M.A. General Psychology, NYU

2004 B.A. Cognitive Science, Hampshire College

Publications

Martin, A.E., & McElree, B. (2008). A content-addressable pointer mechanism underlies comprehension of verb phrase ellipsis. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 879-906 . [.pdf]

Ashby, J., & Martin, A.E. (2008). Prosodic phonological representations in early visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 34, 224-236. [.pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A.E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (in press). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? Brain and Language. [.pdf]

Manuscripts submitted or in preparation

Martin, A.E., & McElree, B. (submitted). Memory operations that support language comprehension: Evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis.

Martin, A.E., & McElree, B. (in preparation). Direct-access retrieval of nonadjacent dependencies: Speed-accuracy tradeoff and eye-movement evidence from sluicing.

Martin, A.E., & McElree, B. (in preparation). Speed-accuracy tradeoff investigation of pseudogapping.

Awards

2008 Katzell Summer Fellowship, Psychology Department, NYU

2008 Department Travel Grant, Psychology Department, NYU

2007 Department Travel Grant, Psychology Department, NYU

2006-2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2005 NSF GRF Honorable Mention

2004 Graduate School of Arts and Science Travel Award

2004 MacCracken Graduate Fellowship, New York University

2004 Dean's Supplementary Fellowship Grant, New York University

2004 Engberg Fellowship, New York University

2003 Culture, Brain, and Development Travel Grant, Hampshire College

Talks

Comprehension of verb phrase ellipsis: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence for a content-addressable pointer. CUNY Psycholinguistics Supper Club, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, September 12, 2006.

 

Conference Presentations

Martin, A.E. & McElree, B. (2008). Susceptibility to retroactive interference in verb-phrase ellipsis: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence. Poster to be presented at the 14th annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference. Cambridge, UK, September, 2008.

Martin, A.E. & McElree, B. (2007). Processing nonadjacent dependencies: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence from sluicing. Poster presented at the 20th annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference. San Diego, CA, March 2007.

Martin, A.E. & McElree, B. (2006). Distance of integration and antecedent complexity in the online interpretation of VP-Ellipsis. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference. New York, NY, March 2006.

Martin, A.E., C.E. Clifton, Jr., N. Stillings, & J. A. Morris (2005). Verb Semantics in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: an ERP Study.  Poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference.  Tucson, AZ, March 2005.

Martin, A.E.,  C.E. Clifton, Jr., N. Stillings, & J.M. Florack. (2005). The Influence of Semantic Verb Type on Ambiguity Resolution: an ERP Investigation.  Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.  New York, NY, April 2005.

Ashby, J., A.E. Martin, & J.M. Florack. (2004). The Timecourse of Phonological Representation in Reading: an ERP investigation.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.  San Francisco, CA, April, 2004.

Ashby, J., A.E. Martin, & J.M. Florack. (2003). Syllable Effects in English Word Recognition? : An ERP Investigation II.  Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November, 2003.

Ashby, J., A.E. Martin, & J. A. Morris. (2003). The role of syllable information in word recognition during silent reading: an ERP investigation.  Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 2003.

Johnson, S. M., C. E. Clifton, Jr., M. E. Breen, A.E. Martin, & J. M. Florack. (2003). ERP Investigation of Prosodic and Semantic Focus.  Talk given at Syntax and Beyond (SaB) conference on prosody. Leipzig, Germany, August, 2003.