Work in our laboratory is aimed at understanding the processes and representations involved in the human's remarkable capacity to recognize spoken language.
Conor T. McLennan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Director, Language Research Laboratory
Cleveland State University
216.687.3750 (Office)
In particular, we are interested in the processes and representations that support spoken word recognition. Our work on processing issues focuses primarily on the nature of lexical activation and competition. Our work on representational issues examines the nature of sound-based representations in the mental lexicon, in particular their abstractness and specificity.
