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Faculty
-- Cognitive Program Area
James
H. Neely, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Office: Social Sciences 317
Phone: (518) 442-5013
Fax: (518) 442-4867
EMail: jn562@albany.edu
Research Lab: Attention, Memory and Priming
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf) |
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Research Areas of Interest
My research interests fall into three different general areas:
reading and word identification, memory, and visual attention. In reading,
we use the semantic priming paradigm to study how semantic context
influences how quickly people can read and identify a word and to test a theory
(Neely, 1991; Neely & Kahan, 2001)that says that semantic priming is
mediated by three isolable processing mechanisms: an automatic spread
of activation within lexical/semantic memory, a strategic expectancy
mechanism, and a retrospective semantic matching process that is utilized for
lexical (“word”/”nonword”) decisions, but not in pronunciation. In memory, we
are
studying memory blocks and interference/“supression” mechanisms, blend-false
memories, and the contributions that activation and source monitoring make
to false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott false memory paradigm. In visual
attention, we have done work some work on repetition blindness and are currently
focusing on whether or not static discontinuities in shape or color can automatically
capture spatial attention.
More detail about the research we are currently conducting in the lab in these
three areas can be found by clicking here. Specific areas of interest follow. |
 Word
Recognition Processes in Reading
Semantic
Priming
Implicit
vs. Explicit Memory
False
Memories and Blend Memories
Memory
blocks and interference and supression mechanisms in memory
Attention
(attentional blink, repetition blindness,
visual spatial attention) |
Education
1975 Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Yale University
1971 B.A., Psychology, University of Missouri,
Kansas City |
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