Department of Psychology, Boston University
64 Cummington Street; Email: charris@bu.edu; Webpage: http://www.bu.edu/PSYCH/charris
Boston, MA 02215 Phone: (617) 353-2956 Fax (617) 353-6933
Department of
Psychology, Boston University: Assistant Professor, 1991- 2003; Associate
Professor, 2003- present
Ph.D., Cognitive
Science and Psychology, University of California, San Diego, August 1991.
Dissertation title: Parallel Distributed Processing Models and Metaphors
for Language and Development.
B.A., Psychology
cum laude, Harvard University, March 1985
My
graduate training and most enduring interest has been the intersection between
cognition and language. In the last decade I have conducted bilingualism
studies on a variety of languages, including Spanish, Turkish, Russian and Mandarin.
In 2003, a laboratory study showed that skin conductance responsiveness varies
depending on whether words and phrases are presented in bilinguals' first or
second language. This pursuit has caused me to develop new research projects in
cross-cultural psychology, some of which include comparisons of personality and
psychopathology. I have also studied visual word recognition and orthographic
processing using a variety of techniques such as lexical decision, the
same/different task, and repetition blindness. Cross-national collaborations
include my study of Turkish students learning English as a foreign language at
Istanbul University (with Ayse Aycicegi-Dinn, funded by Tubitak, Turkey's
National Science Foundation).
My current research on
language includes how deaf children learn English via print, and how hearing
children of deaf parents experience their bilingual and bicultural
identity. I also have
ongoing studies on Asperger Syndrome and am interested in “Neurodiversity” (see
recent essay on
why those with Aspergers are less likely to believe in God). I list my publications separately
under the labels Psycholinguistics,
and Cross-cultural Psychology, Psychopathology and Normal Personality
Variation.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Berant, J.B., & Edelman, S. (2012). Measuring mental entrenchment of phrases with perceptual identification, familiarity ratings, and corpus frequency statistics. In S. T. Gries & D. Divjak (Eds.), Frequency effects in cognitive linguistics (Vol. 1): Statistical effects in learnability, processing and change. The Hague, The Netherlands: De Gruyter Mouton. Preprint word doc
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Staroselsky, M., Smashnaya, S., Vasilyeva, N. (2012). Emotional resonances of bilinguals’ two languages vary with age of arrival: The Russian-English bilingual experience in the U.S. In P. Wilson (Ed.), Dynamicity in emotion concepts [Łódź Studies in Language 20] Frankfurt am Main: Pete
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Tong, J., & Lung, W. , & Poo, S. (2011).
Physiological reactivity to emotional phrases in Mandarin-English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15, 329-352.
pdff.
Morris, A.L., Still, M.L., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2009). Repetition blindness: An emergent property of inter-item competition. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 338-375. pdf
Aycicegi-Dinn, A., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2009) Emotion memory effects in bilingual speakers: A levels-of-processing approach. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12, 291–303. pdf
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., & Aycicegi-Dinn, A. (2009). Emotion and lying in a non-native language. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 71, 193–204. pdf
Caldwell-Harris, C. L., & Morris,
A. L. (2008). Fast Pairs: A visual word recognition paradigm for
measuring entrenchment, top-down effects, and subjective phenomenology. Journal
of Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1063-1081. pdf
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2008). Language
research needs an "emotion revolution" AND distributed models of the
lexicon. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 169–171. pdf
Jay, T., Caldwell-Harris, C.L., King,
K. (2008). Recalling taboo and nontaboo words. American Journal of
Psychology, 121, 83–103. pdf
Morris, A.L.,
Still, M., Caldwell-Harris, C.L., & Atkinson, M. (2007). Semantic
interference and associative facilitation from words presented in
rapid-serial-visual-presentation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14,
755-761.
Niedeggen, M.,
Heil, M., Harris, C.L. (2006). "Winner take all" competition among
real and illusory words. NeuroReport, 3, 493-497. pdf
Harris, C.L.,
Gleason, J.B.,& Aycicegi, A. (2006). When is a first language more
emotional? Psychophysiological evidence from bilingual speakers. In A. Pavlenko
(Ed.), Bilingual minds: Emotional experience, expression, and
representation. Clevedon, United Kingdom: Mulilingual Matters. pdf
Harris, C.L.
(2004). Bilingual speakers in the lab: Psychophysiological measures of
emotional reactivity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development, 2, 223-247. pdf
Morris, A.L.,
& Harris, C.L. (2004). Repetition blindness: Out of sight or out of mind?
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30,
913-922.
Harris, C.L.,
& Morris, A.L. (2004). Repetition blindness occurs in nonwords. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 305-318.
pdf
Niedeggen, M.,
Heil, M., Ludowig, E., Rolke, B., & Harris, C.L. (2004). Semantic
processing of illusory words: An ERP approach. Neuropsychologia, 47,
745-753. pdf
Aycicegi, A.,
& Harris, C.L. (2004). Bilinguals' recall and recognition of emotion words.
Cognition and Emotion, 18, 977-987. pdf
Harris, C.L.,
Aycicegi, A., & Berko Gleason, J. (2003). Taboo words and reprimands elicit
greater autonomic reactivity in a first than in a second language. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 24, 561-578. pdf
Harris, C.L. (2003). Language and cognition. Encyclopedia
of Cognitive Science. London: MacMillan.
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Morris, A.L., & Harris, C.L. (2002). Sentence
context, word recognition and repetition blindness. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition,
28, 962-982. pdf
Harris, C.L., & Bates, E.A. (2002). Clausal
backgrounding and pronominal reference: A functionalist approach to c-command. Language
and Cognitive Processes, 17, 237-269. PDF
Aycicegi, A., & Harris, C.L. (2002). How are
letters containing diacritics represented? Repetition blindness for Turkish
words. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, 371-382.
Harris, C.L. (2001). Are individual or consecutive
letters the unit affected by repetition blindness? Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 761-774. pdf
Harris, C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2001). Illusory
words created by repetition blindness: A technique for probing sublexical
representations. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 118-126. PDF
Harris, C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2001). Identity
and similarity in repetition blindness: No cross-over interaction. Cognition,
81, 1-40. Summary
pdf
Harris, C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2000).
Orthographic repetition blindness. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 53A, 1039-1060. PDF
Morris, A.L., & Harris, C.L. (1999). A
sublexical locus for repetition blindness: Evidence from illusory words. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1060-1075. Summary
Harris, C.L. (1998). Psycholinguistic studies of
entrenchment. In J. Koenig (Ed.), Conceptual Structures, Language and
Discourse, Vol 2. Berkeley, CA: CSLI. PDF
Aginsky, V., Harris, C., Rensink, R., &
Beusmans, J. (1997). Two strategies for learning a route in a driving
simulator. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17, 317-331.
Harris, C.L. (1994). Backpropagation
representations for the rule-analogy continuum. In J. Barnden, & K.
Holyoak, (Eds.), Analogical Connections.
Norwood, N.J: Ablex.
Harris, C.L. (1994). Coarse coding and the
lexicon. In C. Fuchs & B. Victorri, (Eds.), Continuity in linguistic
semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Harris, C.L. (1991). Alternatives to linguistic
arbitrariness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 622-623.
Harris, C.L. (1990). Connectionism and cognitive
linguistics. Connection Science, 2,
7-34. Reprinted
in N. Sharkey (Ed)., Connectionist natural language processing,
Oxford, England: Intellect.
Jordan, C.J. &
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (in press). Understanding Differences in Neurotypical and
Autism Spectrum Special Interests through Internet Discussion Forums. Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities. pdf (older version; contact me for new
paper)
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2012). Understanding atheism/non-belief as an expected individual-differences variable. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2, 4-23.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2012). What theoretical frameworks do scholars need? What type of society do we all want? Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2, 40-47.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2012). Atheism: by-product of cognitive styles of independent learning and systemizing. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2, 70-73.
Gross, V.C., Neargarder, S., Caldwell-Harris, C.L., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2011). Superior encoding enhances recall in color-graphemic synesthesia, Perception, 40, 196–208. (available on my academia.bu.edu website)
Aycicegi-Dinn, A., &
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2011).
Individualism-Collectivism among Americans, Turks and Turkish Immigrants
to the U.S. International
Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 9-16.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Wilson, A., LoTempio, E.,
& Beit-Hallahmi, B. (2010).
Exploring the atheist personality: Well-being, awe, and magical thinking
in atheists, Buddhists, and Christians.
Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 14, 659-672. Journal
site. Preprint pdf
Aycicegi-Dinn, A., Dinn, W.M., Caldwell-Harris,
C.L (2009). Obsessive-compulsive personality traits: Compensatory response to executive function deficit? International Journal of
Neuroscience, 119, 600 – 608.
Ayçiçegi-Dinn, A., Dinn, W.M. &
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2008). The temporolimbic personality: A cross-national
study. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 211-244.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L.,
& Aycicegi, A. (2006). When personality and culture clash: The
psychological distress of allocentrics in an individualist culture and
idiocentrics in a collectivist culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43, 331-361. pdf
Aycicegi,
A., Dinn, W.M., & Harris, C.L. (2005). Validation of Turkish and English
versions of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-B. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 21, 34-43.
Dinn, W.M.,
Ayçiçegi-Dinn, A., Robbins, N.C., & Harris, C.L. (2005). Migraine Headache
and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in a Student Sample. Bulletin of Clinical
Psychopharmacology,15, 174-181.
Harris, C.L., &
Dinn, W.M. (2004). Subtyping obsessive-compulsive disorder: Neuropsychological
correlates. Behavioural Neurology,
14, 75-87.
Dinn,
W.M., Harris, C.L., Aycicegi, A., Andover, M., & Greene, P., & Kirkley,
D, & Reilly, C. (2004). Neurocognitive function in borderline personality
disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology
& Biological Psychiatry, 28, 329-341.
Dinn,
W.M., Harris, C.L., & Aycicegi, A. (2004). Cigarette smoking in a student
sample: Neurocognitive and clinical correlates. Addictive Behaviors, 29, 107-126.
Aycicegi,
A., Dinn, W.M., & Harris, C.L. (2004). Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Patterns of Axis-II comorbidity. International
Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 8, 85-89.
Aycicegi, A., Dinn,
W.M., & Harris, C.L. (2003). Assessing Adult Attention-Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder: A Turkish Version of the Current Symptoms Scale. Psychopathology, 36, 160-167.
Aycicegi, A., Dinn, W.M., Harris, C.L. & Erkmen, H. (2003).
Neuropsychological function in obsessive compulsive disorder: Effects of
comorbid conditions on task performance. European Psychiatry, 18, 241-248.
Harris, C.L., & Dinn, W.M.,
& Marcinkiewicz, J.A. (2002). Complex partial seizure-like symptoms in
borderline personality disorder. Epilepsy
& Behavior, 3, 433-438.
abstract html
Aycicegi, A., Harris, C.L &
Dinn, W.M. (2002). Parenting style and obsessive-compulsive symptoms and
personality traits in a student sample. Clinical Psychology and
Psychotherapy, 9, 406 - 417. abstract
Dinn, W.M., Harris, C.L.,
Aycicegi, A., Greene, P., & Andover, M. (2002). Positive and negative
schizotypy in a student sample: Neurocognitive and clinical correlates. Schizophrenia
Research. Full text, pdf
Dinn, W.M., Robbins, N.C., &
Harris, C.L. (2001). Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder:
Neuropsychological correlates and clinical presentation. Brain &
Cognition, 46, 114-121.
Dinn, W.M., Harris, C.L.,
McGonigal, K.M., & Raynard, R.C. (2001). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and
immunocompetence. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 31, 311-320.
Dinn, W.M., & Harris, C.L.
(2000). Neurocognitive function in antisocial personality disorder. Psychiatry
Research, 97, 173-190. Abstract Full text pdf
Dinn, W.M., Harris, C.L., Raynard,
R.C. (1999). Post-traumatic obsessive compulsive disorder: A threefactor model.
Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 62, 313-324. Abstract
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (in press).
Book review of The biology of religious behavior: The evolutionary origins of faith and religion. International Journal for the
Psychology of Religion, 21, 81-84. Proofs pdf
Harris, C.L. (1998). Review of
Anomia: Neuroanatomical and cognitive correlates. Applied Psycholinguistics,
19, 687-691.
Harris, C.L. (1997). Lots of
potential: Review of T. Regier, The Human Semantic Potential. Neural
Networks, 10, 1733-1741.
Harris, C.L. (1995) Review of
Connectionist approaches to Natural Language Processing, edited by R.G. Reilly
& N.E. Sharkey. Applied Psycholinguistics, 16/2, 226-231.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Kronrod,
A., Yang, J. (under review). Say less, do more: Expressing positive emotions in
Chinese culture.
Morris,
A.L., Caldwell-Harris, C.L., & Aycicegi, A. (in prep). Explicit and
implicit measures of repetition blindness.
Cheng, H. & Caldwell-Harris, C. To
appear. Orthography shapes semantic and phonological activation in reading. Proceedings
of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of
California, Berkeley, USA.
Cheng, H. & Caldwell-Harris, C. To
appear. The representation of polysemy in the monolingual and bilingual mental
lexicon. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Winter Applied Linguistics Conference.
Columbia University, USA.
Cheng, H., & Caldwell-Harris, C. (2012). Phonological
activation in Chinese reading: A repetition blindness study. Paper presented at
the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, USA.
Cheng, H., & Caldwell-Harris, C. (2011). When semantics
overrides phonology: Semantic substitution errors in reading Chinese aloud.
Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America. Pittsburgh, USA. The abstract was designated as media-worthy.
Caldwell-Harris,
C.L., Cheng H.-W., Li, T., Morris, A. (2011). Testing the "activation
reflects encoding” principle in writing systems using Repetition Blindness.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Caldwell-Harris,
C.L., Murphy, C.F., Velazquez, T., McNamara, P. (2011). Religious Belief
Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Jordan, C.,
& Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2011). Understanding Differences
in "Systemizing and Special Interests: Understanding Neurotypical and
Autism Spectrum Disorder Differences. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Assocation, Cambridge, MA.
Tong,
J., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2010). Live Learning and Interactivity Improve
Second Language Learning in Adults. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Psychological Science, Boston.
Jordan,
C., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2010). Understanding Differences in
Neurotypical and Autism Spectrum Special Interests Through Internet Forums.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological
Science, Boston.
Hoffmeister, R., Fish,S., Kuntze,
M. & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2010). Cognitive and linguistic control in
verbs of motion and location: Acquiring plurals & arrangements. Presented
at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Purdue, Indiana.
Peterman, P., Jordan, C.J.,
Petersile, M., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2010). Explaining Faith:
Understanding Factors that Contribute to Religious Belief and Non-Belief.
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Psychological Science,
Boston.
Kristin Snoddon (symposium
organizer), Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Joanne Cripps, Todd Czubek, Robert
Hoffmeister, Marlon Kuntze, & Anita Small. (2010). Promoting Teaching
Methods and Materials for American Sign Language-English Education. Presented
at the 43rd Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit, Boston MA, March 26.
Hui-wen Cheng and Catherine
Caldwell-Harris (2010). Orthography Shapes Semantic and Phonological Activation
in Reading. Presented at the 36th
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb
6-7.
Cheng, H., & Caldwell-Harris, C. (2010). The
representation of polysemy in L1 and L2 mental lexicon. Paper presented at the 7th
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon.
University of Windsor, Canada.
Tong, J., Dahlen.K.,
Stone, K., Chu, E., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2009). Breaking the language
barrier: Social interactivity improves adult language learning. Presented at
the 48th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society,
Boston, MA, November 20.
Caldwell-Harris, C.
L. (2009). The puzzle of nonbelief. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion. Denver, CO.
October 24.
Caldwell-Harris,
C.L., Ryvkin, I., Anghelescu, A., & Obler, L.K. (2009). Speech perception
by non-native speakers declines drastically in noisy conditions. Presented at
the Thirteenth International
Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, May 29, Boston, MA.
Aycicegi-Dinn, A.,
& Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2009). Lying and emotion in a non-natve language.
Paper presented at the 13th
International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. Boston University, USA.
Hui-wen Cheng, Jen-i
Li, Hua Shu, Su-Ling Yeh, and Catherine Caldwell-Harris. 2009. Simplified and
traditional scripts confer different advantages in reading. Paper presented at
the 21st North American Conference
on Chinese Linguistics.
Bryant University, USA.
Hui-wen Cheng, Su-Ling Yeh, Jen-i
Li, Hua Shu, and Catherine Caldwell-Harris. 2009. Readers of Different Chinese
Scripts Use Different Strategies to Recognize Chinese Characters. Paper
presented at the 13th International
Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. Boston University, USA.
Hui-wen Cheng, Hua Shu, Su-Ling
Yeh, Jen-i Li, and Catherine Caldwell-Harris. 2009. The Processing of Chinese
Simplified and Traditional Scripts: A Psycholinguistic Study. Paper presented
at the 36th Annual Conference of
the Association of Chinese Schools. Boston, USA.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L.,
Hoffmeister, R., & Kuntze, M. (2009). When learning to read means learning
a second language via print: The challenge for deaf children. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Reading, Boston, June 25-27.
Hui-wen Cheng and Catherine
Caldwell-Harris. 2009. The representation of polysemy in the monolingual and
bilingual mental lexicon. Paper presented at 30th Annual Winter Applied Linguistics Conference. Columbia University, USA.
Caldwell-Harris,
C.L., LoTempio, E., Jordan, C., & Ramanayake, N. (2008). Religious
non-belief/belief explained by intellectual orientation and childhood
socialization. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, August 14-17.
Berant, J.B., Edelman, S., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2008). Tracks in
the mind: Differential entrenchment of common and rare liturgical and everyday
multiword phrases in religious and secular hebrew speakers. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, D.C., July 2008. pdf
Aycicegi-Dinn, A., & Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2008). Emotion and lying in a
non-native language. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, March 14.
Dahlen, K., &
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2007). Hearing yourself think: Vocal and subvocal
rehearsal in foreign language learning. Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development.
Boston, MA (November).
Tong, J., &
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. (2007). Bilinguals sweating in the lab: "Stop
That" more arousing in L1, "I love you" in L2. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
Gross, V, Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Neargarder, S., Cronin-Golomb, A. (2007).
Pop-out effects in color-graphemic synesthesia. Presented to the Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L.,
Staroselsky, M., Vasilyeva, N, Rukovets, V. (2007). Psychophysiological studies
of emotional arousal to bilingual speakers' first and second languages.
Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New
York, NY.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Sanchez,
N., Ventura, B., Angun, C., Aycicegi-Dinn, A. (2007). Preferring to lie in L1
vs L2: Is emotionality or proficiency more important? Annual Meeting of the
Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC
Caldwell-Harris, C.L. &
Morris, A.L. (2007). Quantifying strength of entrenchment via perceptual errors
in reading "card credit" and "code zip". Presented at the
Eleventh International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston
University, Boston MA.
Ryvkin, I., Harris, C.L., Obler,
L. (2006). L2 Sentence Processing in Noise. Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism -
Functional and Neural Perspectives.
Harris,
C.L. (2006). Reactions to emotional language in English-Russian bilingual
speakers. Presented at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Niedeggen,
M., Heil, M., Harris, C.L. (2005).The fate of the loser in the competition of
real and illusory words. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society, Toronto, November 10-13.
Harris,
C.L., Sanchez, N., Mehta, N., Robles, C., & Aycicegi, A. (2005). Lying in a
first vs. a second language. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Psychological Society, May 26-29, Los Angeles, CA.
Harris,
C.L. (2005). When is a first language more emotional? Presented at the Fifth
International Symposium on Bilingualism, March 21-24, Barcelona, Spain.
Harris,
C.L., Lung, W., Mehta, N., Poo, S., Robles, C., Swaminathan, N. (2005). When
does a first language feel more emotional to bilingual speakers? Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March 10-13,
Boston, MA.
Harris,
C.L. (2005). Religion, brain and mind: Individual and cultural variability.
Symposium organized with presenters R. Abrahams, C. Robles, A. Wilson, and P.
Cassel, for the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March
10-13, Boston, MA.
Harris,
C.L., & Feld, J. (2004). Language is Embodied, Emotional, and
Contextualized: Evidence from Psychophysiological Studies of Bilingual
Speakers. Presented at Language, Culture and Mind, University of Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, U.K., July 17-20.
Harris,
C.L., Bolton, R., Robles, C., & MacKay, D. (2004). Does emotion speed
binding of word fragments into words? Presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of
the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, November 18-21.
Hannigan,
S. L., & Harris, C.L. (2004). Illusions of inference: are people with
schizotypal tendencies more vulnerable? Presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of
the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, November 18-21.
Morris,
A., & Harris, C.L. (2004). Consequences of type activation without token
individuation in repetition blindness. Presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of
the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, November 18-21.
Harris,
C.L. Jay, T., Pope, L. (2004). High arousal: Why are taboo words easy to recall
without elaborative processing? Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, Washington, D.C.
Aycicegi,
A., & Harris, C.L. (2004). Deep and shallow processing of taboo and emotion
words in a first and second language. Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Ludowig,
E., Niedeggen, M., Heil, M., Rolke, B., & Harris, C.L. (2003). Illusions
electrified: ERP priming effects are induced by illusory words. Presented at
the Annual Meetins of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.
Ludowig E., Niedeggen
M., Heil M., Rolke B., Harris C.L. (2003). Meeting abstract: Journal of
Psychophysiology, 17,165-165.
Morris,
A.L., & Harris, C.L. (2003). Case-independent and case-specific repetition
blindness in the cerebral hemispheres. Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of
the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver.
Harris,
C.L. (2003). Psychophysiological studies of emotional arousal to speakers'
first and second languages. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society
Ramsawh,
H., & Harris, C.L. (2003). Women's Sexual Strategies: More Common (and
Diverse) than We Think? Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society
Harris,
C.L. (2003). First and second languages differ in emotional resonance.
International Pragmatics Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Harris,
C.L., Aycicegi, A., & Dinn, W.M. (2003). Neuropsychological function in
obsessive-compulsive disorder: Effects of comorbid conditions on task
performance. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association,
Baltimore, MD.
Harris,
C.L., & Dinn, W.M., & Aycicegi, A. (2003). Subtyping of OCD Patients
Reveals Distinct Neurocognitive Profiles. Presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Pancharatnam,
T., & Harris, C. (2003). Bilinguals' autonomic arousal to language mirrors
their subjective emotional experience. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Harris,
C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2003). Repetition-blinded words: transient,
unconsciously activated. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Harris,
C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2002). Explicit and implicit measures of repetition
blindness. Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kansas City.
Morris,
A.L., & Harris, C.L. (2002). Repetition blindness: Bug or feature?
Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City.
Holmes,
S.H., Harris, C.L, & Dinn, W.D. (2002). Neuropsychological investigation
into the validity of handwriting analysis. Paper presented to the American
Association of Handwriting Analysts, July 10, 2002, Toronto, Ontario.
Harris,
C.L., Aycicegi, A., & Berko Gleason, J. (2002). Taboo words and reprimands
elicit greater autonomic reactivity in a first than in a second language.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San
Franciso, CA.
Harris,
C.L., Aycicegi, A., & Morris, A.L. (2002). Words 'blinded' due to repeated
letters show priming in word stem completion. Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Harris,
C.L., & Morris, A.L. (2001). The wordier the better: Strong repetition
blindness occurs for nonwords. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.
Harris,
C.L., Pardallis, V.A., & Frangou, T. (2001). Dominant grammatical cues (but
not weak) survive cross-language interference in early second language
acquisition. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf
Perry,
G.M.J., & Harris, C.L. (2001). Linguistically distinct sensitive periods
for second language acquisition. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Morris,
A.L., & Harris,C.L. (2001). Repetition blindness: Out of sight or out of
mind? Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando,
Florida.
Dinn,
W.M., Robbins, N.C., & Harris, C.L. (2000). Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder: Neuropsychological correlates and clinical presentation. Presented at
TENNET (Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology),
University of Quebec, Montreal.
Harris, C.L., & Aycicegi, A.
(2000). How are diacritic letters represented? Evidence from Turkish repetition
blindness. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society ,
New Orleans, LA. Abstract
Dinn, W.M., Marcinkiewicz, J.A.,
Harris, C.L., McGonigal, K.M., and Raynard, R.C. (1999). Complex Partial
Seizures and Borderline Personality Disorder. Eastern Psychological Association
, April 16-18, 1999, Providence, RI. Abstract
Dinn, W.M., & Harris, C.L.
(1999). Orbitofrontal dysfunction: A neurobehavioral continuum. Presented at
the APA 107th Annual Convention, August 20-24, Boston, MA. Abstract
Harris, C.L., & Dinn, W.M.
(1999). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Williams Syndrome: Disorders of
frontal predominance. APA 107th Annual Convention, August 20-24, Boston, MA. Summary
Harris, C.L., Morris, A.L, &
Ducumbs, S. (1999). Repetition Blindness in the cerebral hemispheres. Presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Franciso, CA.
Harris, C.L. (1999). Orthographic
repetition blindness: a general-purpose tool for cognitive psychologists.
Invited paper, Eastern Psychological Association, April 16-18, 1999,
Providence, RI. Abstract
Harris, C.L.,& Morris A.L.
(1998). Misperceptions of temporal order. Presented at the 69th AnnualMeeting
of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA. Summary
Harris, C.L., & Morris A.L.
(1998). Orthographic repetition blindness is not word-to-word similarity
inhibition. Presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Dallas, Texas. Abstract
Morris, A.L. & Harris, C.L.
(1998). Repetition blindness: Levels of processing revisited. Proceedings of
the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison,
Wisconsin. Abstract
Subiaul, F., Harris, C.L., &
Deacon, T.W. (1998). The cerebellum and the automatization of language.
Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Forum, Boston MA, Oct 21. Abstract
Dorffner, G., & Harris, C.L.
(1997). When pseudowords become words: Effects of learning on orthographic
similarity priming. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society, Stanford, California.
Harris, C.L., & Shirai, Y.
(1997). Selecting past-tense forms for new words: Whatís meaning got to do with
it? Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society, Stanford, California.
Harris, C.L., & Morris A.L.
(1997). The letter clusters theory of repetition blindness . Presented at the
38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA. Abstract
Morris, A.L., & Harris, C.L.
(1997). All those chocolate dandy bars can make you fat: Evidence from
repetition blindness for top-down effects on lexical access. Human Sentence
Processing Conference, Stanford, California. Abstract
Harris, C.L. (1997). Distributed
representations and mixed schemas. Presented at NIPS Workshop 'Neural models of
Concept Learning', Dec. 6, Breckenridge, CO. LongAbstract.
Harris,
C.L. (1996). Exploring the continuum of unit size in word identification. Proceedings
of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society , University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Harris,
C.L., & Morris, A.L. (1996). Letter clusters unite: Illusory words in
repetition blindness. Presented to the 37th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Nov 3-6, Chicago.
Harris,
C. L. (1995). A corpus-based approach to sense selection and contextual
integration. Presented at the Eighth
Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, March 17, 1995.
Beusmans, B., Aginsky, V., Harris,
C.L., & Rensink, R. (1995). Analyzing situation awareness during wayfinding
in a driving simulator. Proceedings of the Experimental Analysis of Measurement
Conference.
Harris,
C.L., & Beeman, R. (1995). Multi-sense priming of homograph targets in the
left and right visual fields. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting , March 26, 1995, San Francisco.
Harris,
C.L., & Shirai, Y. (1995). Schema consistency in L2 acquisition of the
English past tense. Second Language
Research Forum , Ithica,
New York.
Harris,
C.L. (1995). Incongruous extra-word context impairs letter detection. 36th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Harris, C.L. (1993).
Using old words in news ways: The effect of argument structure, form class and
affixation. Proceedings of the 1993 Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics
Society. (Discusses the English
past-tense debate). Full text pdf.
Harris,
C.L. (1992). Understanding English past-tense formation: The shared meaning
hypothesis. Proceedings of the
Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society . Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Harris,
C.L., & Touretzky, D.S. (1991). Verbal polysemy as a knowledge
representation problem. Proceedings of the Second International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference. Santa Cruz, CA.
Harris,
C.L. (1991). Can connectionism advance linguistic theory? Three areas where the
answers are yes, no and maybe. Working Notes, AAAI (American Association for
Artificial Intelligence) Spring Symposium on Connectionist Natural Language
Processing. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Harris,
C.L., & Bates, E.A. (1990). Functional constraints on backwards pronominal
reference. Proceedings of the
Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society , 635-642. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Harris,
C.L., & Elman, J.L. (1989). Representing variable information with simple
recurrent networks. Proceedings of
the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society . Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Harris,
C.L. (1989). A connectionist approach to the story of `over.' Berkeley Linguistics Society, 15, 126-138.
November 10, 2011. The difficulty of acquiring a second
language in adulthood.
Center for Adult Education’s Gonson Society Lecture Series, Cambridge,
MA.
March 13, 2009. Born on
the wrong planet? Using forum postings to test hypotheses about special
interests and religious beliefs of autistic spectrum young adults. Autism Research Center,
Cambridge University, UK.
March
5, 2008 - March 7, 2009. The difficulty of acquiring a second language in
adulthood: Is emotionally-mediated learning the missing ingredient? Colloquium
presented to National Taiwanese University, National Taiwan Normal University, and
to Bangor
University, Wales .
May 27, 2007. How are
recent findings about emotions and multilingualism relevant to psychological
and linguistic theories? Workshop on Bilingualism and Emotion, University of
Kent.
February 2006. Emotion:
The always neglected, all-essential ingredient for language acquisition and
processing. Colloquium presented to the Psychology Department, Cornell
University.
October
2005: Emotion: Neglected by theorists, essential for learning. Colloquium
presented to the Psychology Depatment, SUNY Albany. (Invited by: Jeanette
Altarriba).
March
2005: Leaping to conclusions: Errors of inference made by individuals with
schizotypal personality traits. Colloquium presented to Brigham Behavioral
Neuroscience colloquium.
April,
2003: Emotions, the Brain, & Bilingualism: Is the First Language the
Language of Greater Emotional Expressiveness? Presented to Learning and the
Brain Conference, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Mass. See:
http://www.edupr.com/Brain8.htm
March,
2002: Neuropsychological tasks which tap individual variation in sensitivity to
dynamically changing reinforcement contingencies. Presented to Massachusetts
Mental Health.
March
2001: Orbitofrontal dysfunction in psychopathy and obsessive-compulsive
disorder: a neurobiological continuum? Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar Series,
3/8/01, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
May
8, 2001: Repetition blindness: A tool for investigating word recognition.
Presented at the University of Hull, U.K.
January
2001: When hunches mislead: Problem-solving deficits in patients with
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Presented at: Neuroscience of Emotion and
Consciousness II, January 13, 2001.
Feb
9, 1999: Letter clusters unite: Illusory words produced by repetition
blindness. Presented to the Harvard Vision Lab, Psychology Department, Harvard
University.
July
21, 1999: Orbitofrontal Dysfunction: A Neurobehavioral Continuum. Presented to
Massachusetts Mental Health.
April
16, 1999: Orthographic repetition blindness: A technique for probing sublexical
representations. Invited paper, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association.
June
8, 1996: Towards a lexicon of variable-sized units: Data from letter detection,
visual search and repetition blindness. Presented to the McDonnel-Pew Program
in Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Babson College, MA.
March,
1995: The psycholinguistics of multi-word units. Colloquium presented to the
Department of Psychology, Indiana University.
May
11, 1995: Hal's semantics: Lost in vector space? Invited presentation to TENNET
(Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology), May 10-12,
University of Quebec, Montreal.
Feb
27, 1995: Units larger than words. Colloquium presented at UC Riverside.
June,
1993: Invited Faculty for the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School (June 21-
July 2, University of Colorado, Boulder).
June,
1992: Coarse coding and the lexicon. Invited presentation to "Le continu
en semantique linguistique: Table-Ronde", 22-24 June 1992, Universite de
Caen, France.
National Science Foundation
(2004-2010)
Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion (2010)
The Mental Lexidon (2009-2010)
Personality and Individual
Differences (2007-2009)
Journal of Pragmatics (2007-2008)
World Cultural Psychiatry Research
Review (2007)
Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition (2006-2008)
Applied Cognitive Psychology
(2005-2006)
Archives of
General Psychiatry (2003-2004)
Memory and
Cognition (2003-2005; 2007-2008; 2010)
Journal of
Memory and Language (1998-2006)
Psychonomic
Bulletin and Review (2002-2005)
Issues in
Applied Linguistics (2001-2002)
Behavior and
Brain Sciences (2000)
American
Anthropologist (2000)
International
Journal of Bilingualism (2005, 2009)
International
Journal of Psychology (2004)
Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (2002-2005; 2010)
Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1999-2005)
Psychological
Science (1998-2005)
Psychological
Review (1994-1995)
Boston
University Child Language Development Conference (1995-present)
Cognitive
Science (1995-1997; intermittently other years)
Connection
Science (1995, 2000)
Neural
Information Processing Society (NIPS 1994, 1995)
Graduate
and undergraduate courses in cross-cultural psychology, cognitive science,
psycholinguistics, cognitive development, developmental psychology, first and
second language acquisition, individual differences.
Ph.D.
Advisors: Professors Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey Elman.
Supervision of Ph.D.
Students: Hui-wen Cheng (Applied Linguistics, 2012); Kristina Dahlen (Applied
Linguistics, 2008), Veronica Gross (Program in Neuroscience, 2008); and Alison
Morris, M.A. (Brain, Behavior and Cognition Program, 2000). Supervision of
Post-Doctoral Fellows: Dr. Ayse Aycicegi, Istanbul University (February 1999 -
November 2001); Dr. Zhengrong Chen, Southeast University Nanjing (August 2010-July 2011). Current doctoral
advisee: Srishti Nayak.
Other doctoral or
masters students who were co-authors on publications or conference proceedings:
Wayne Dinn, Norma Sanchez, T. Pancharatnam, Rendi Bolton, Sarah Holmes, Sherry
Ducumbs, Victoria Pardallis, Paul Greene, Sharon Hannigan, Holly Ramsawh,
Angela Wilson, Svetlana Smashnaya, Nadya Vasilveya (Northeastern University),
Jeremy Peterman.
Undergraduate
collaborators on papers or conference proceedings: Caitlin Murphy, Tessa
Velazquez, Ting-Yuan Li, Chloe Jordan, Victoria Choate, Elizabeth LoTempio,
Marianna Staroselsky, Vicky Rukovets, Brenda Ventura, Colpan Angun, Inna
Ryvkin, Nisha Mehta, Christopher Robles, Sinlan Poo, Neela Swaminathan, Julia
Feld, Leah Pope, Theresa Frangou, George Perry, Nicole Robbins, Kelly
McGonigal, Francis Subiaul, Vlada Aginsky, Matthew Petersile, Winvy Lung.
Member,
The Psychonomic Society , 1995 - present
Associate,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 1991 - present
Member,
Cognitive Science Society , 1992 - 2004
Member,
Society for Cognitive Neuroscience , 1994 - 2006
Member,
American Psychological Association, 1997-present
Member,
American Psychological Society, 1997-present
Member,
Eastern Psychological Association, 1997-2005
Member,
Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, 1999-2002