Alison
L. Morris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-3180
Office:
Room
490 Science Hall
Office Hours:
Mondays 1:10-2:30, Thursdays 11:00-12:20
Phone: 515 294-7532
Email: almorris@iastate.edu
Courses Taught:
Psych 310: Brain and Behavior
Psych 413: Psychology of Language
Psych 519: Cognitive Neuropsychology
My research focuses on interactions among attention, perception, language, and memory, with a particular emphasis on the role of attention in visual word recognition. Ongoing projects in my lab include computational modeling of short-term repetition priming and repetition blindness effects; semantic interference in picture and word naming; the nature of orthographic representations involved in visual word recognition; and attentional orienting effects in familiarity-based recognition.
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more information about my current projects.
Morris, A. L., Cleary, A. M., & Still, M. L. (in press). The role of autonomic arousal in feelings of familiarity. Consciousness and Cognition.
Morris, A. L., & Still, M. L. (2008). Now you see it, now you don't: Repetition blindness for nonwords. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 146-166.
Morris, A. L., Still, M. L., Caldwell-Harris, C. L., & Atkinson, M. D. (2007). Semantic interference and associative facilitation from words presented in rapid serial visual presentation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 755-761.
Cleary, A. M., Morris, A. L., & Langley, M. M. (2007). Recognition memory for novel stimuli: The structural regularity hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 379-393.