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

Interests

psychology of language, sentence processing, memory and attention in sentence processing, parsing, non-adjacent dependency resolution, semantic and referential processing, ellipsis

Education

2009 Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, New York Unviersity

2006 M.A. General Psychology, NYU

2004 B.A. Cognitive Science, Hampshire College

Publications

Martin, A. E., & McElree, B. (2009). Memory operations that support language comprehension: Evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, 35, 1231-1239.[.pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (2009). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? [.pdf]

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]

Manuscripts submitted or in preparation

Martin, A. E., & McElree, B. (2009) Direct-access retrieval of nonadjacent dependencies: Speed-accuracy tradeoff and eye-movement evidence from sluicing. Manuscript in preparation.

Current Projects

Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Davachi, L. (2009). An fMRI investigation of dependency resolution. Study in progress.

Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Fodor, J. D. (2009). The dynamics of garden-path recovery: A speed-accuracy tradeoff investigation. Study in progress.

Awards

2009 Dean's Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU

2009 NSF Pre-doc Travel Grant, National Science Foundation

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, NYU

2004 MacCracken Graduate Fellowship, NYU

2004 Dean's Supplementary Fellowship Grant, NYU

2004 Engberg Fellowship, NYU

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

Talks

Memory structures and mechanisms for language comprehension. Department of Psychology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. May 8, 2009.

Memory structures and mechanisms for language comprehension. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. January 16, 2009.

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., & B. McElree. (2009). Cue-diagnosticity and garden-path recovery: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence. Poster presented at the 15th annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). Barcelona, Spain, September 2009.

Martin, A. E., & B. McElree. (2008). Susceptibility to retroactive interference in verb-phrase ellipsis: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence. Poster presented at the 14th annual AMLaP. Cambridge, UK, September 2008.

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

Martin, A. E., & B. McElree. (2006). Distance of integration and antecedent complexity in the online interpretation of VP-ellipsis. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY. 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.  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 (CNS).  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 11th annual CNS.  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 9th annual 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.