Glenberg Lab - Lab Members
Lab Members for Fall, 2011
Dr. Arthur Glenberg, Ph.D.
Art Glenberg received his BA in Psychology from Miami University (the real one in Oxford, OH) in 1970, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1974. His appointment at the University of Wisconsin, where he is currently an emeritus professor, began in 1974. He became a professor at Arizona State University in 2008.
Research in the Glenberg lab is organized into two tracks. The first investigates the embodied basis of cognition with a focus on language. This basic research is guided by the question: How do neural systems of action, perception, and emotion contribute to high-level cognition? The second track applies the basic research to developing a reading comprehension intervention for emerging readers. The intervention is designed to help children construct embodied mental models while reading: Children literally manipulate toys to correspond to the sentences they read, and then they learn to imagine manipulating the toys. This intervention greatly increases reading comprehension and has the collateral benefit of helping children love to read.
David Hava
Formerly a professional folk musician, David now studies cognitive psychology of emotional language comprehension in the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. He enjoys home-renovation, and emotional language comprehension with his wife Hayley, a Ph.D. student in counseling psychology
Liz is a second year grad student in the Cognitive Psychology PhD program at ASU. She did her undergrad at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, where she received a double BA (Philosophy/Psychology). Her primary interest is in philosophy of mind. Specifically, she likes to focus on connecting meaning in language to perception and action. She believes that the basic theory of embodied cognition can provide a framework upon which to build solidly empirical understanding of cognitive processes ranging from implicit memory to abstract reasoning.
Kristen Pantermarakis
Kristen.Pantermarakis@asu.edu
Kristen Pantermarakis is currently pursuing her BA in psychology and is in her junior year. She plans to attain a Ph.D. , possibly in clinical psychology or neuropsychology. Kristen finds the relationship between mental abilities and cognitive processes and behavior very interesting. She was born and raised in New Jersey. Hobbies include reading and travelling.
Hannah Rakestraw
hrakestr@asu.edu
Hannah is a sophomore pursuing a degree in Psychology and a double-minor in Speech and Hearing Science and Dance. Formerly a journalism student, Hannah discovered that she loves studying how theindividual perceives, produces and reasons about language. She is primarily interested in researching how communication disorders can be treated by taking an embodied cognition approach. She hopes to cross-pollinate between cognitive psychology and language pathology in her graduate studies. When Hannah takes off her academic hat, she enjoys humorous television, planning her study abroad trip to England, and catching some Z’s
Devan Watson
dwatson3@asu.edu
I am currently a junior and am aiming to obtain a BA in psychology with a minor in film and media production. I plan on going to grad school as soon as I can, but am not sure to which level I want to take it thus far. I have a huge interest in cognitive psychology, but feel that I need to explore the field more before I settle on what I want to do with it. One aspect of cognitive pyschology that greatly holds my interest is the connection between language and perception and how perception is shaped by language. Other interests of mine include reading, writing, all forms of art, film/movies, and travel.
Noah Zarr
noahnz@gmail.com
Noah is a junior working toward degrees in psychology and philosophy. His interests span a wide range of those two fields but he is primarily interested in understanding the neural mechanisms responsible for linking appropriate behavior with perception. He hopes to pursue a PhD in a psychology-related field with the ultimate aim of a research career. In his spare time, Noah often enjoys gluttony and writing about himself in the third person.
