Warren, Tessa
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cognitive Program
Contact
607 LRDC
412-624-7460
Fax: 412-624-9149
tessa@pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~tessa
Research Interests: Adult language comprehension, semantic, syntactic and referential factors affecting linguistic complexity, referential processing, the interface between cognitive and linguistic development
Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Selected Publications
- Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (in press). Eye movements when reading implausible sentences: Investigating potential structural influences on semantic integration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
- Warren, T., White, S.J., & Reichle, E.D. (2009). Investigating the cause of wrap-up effects: Evidence from eye movements and E-Z Reader. Cognition, 111(1), 132-137.
- Warren, T., McConnell, K., & Rayner, K. (2008). Effects of context on eye movements when reading about plausible and impossible events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 34(4), 1001-1010.
- Warren, T. & McConnell, K. (2007). Disentangling the effects of selectional restriction violations and plausibility violation severity on eye-movements in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(4), 770-775.
- Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2002). The influence of referential processing on sentence complexity. Cognition, 85, 79-112 (Abstract-pdf)
Honors and Awards
- Consulting Editor, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Contributor to The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism,winner of the 2009 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize
Labs
Graduate Student Advisees
- Huffman, Nikole
- Vanyukov, Polina