Katie Carbary

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

University of Rochester

Office: Lattimore 515

Phone: (585) 276-4812

Email: kcarbary@bcs.rochester.edu

 

 

Education

 

2005 - present       University of Rochester, Ph.D. Program, Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

 

March, 2009          University of Rochester, M.A., Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

 

May, 2004             Reed College, B.A., Psychology.

 

 

Research Interests

Dialogue; syntactic priming; intonational meaning; referential form; and sometimes, scalar implicatures.

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

Goldwater, M. B., Carbary, K. M. & Tanenhaus, M. K. Visual similarity and referential domain membership affect object categorization during reference resolution. A poster presented at the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 2009. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (pdf)

 

Kim, C. S., Carbary, K. M., & Tanenhaus, M. K. Syntactic priming disambiguates globally ambiguous sentences in language comprehension. A talk presened at the LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2009; and a poster presented at the the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis, March 2009. (pdf)

 

Degen, J., Reeder, P., Carbary, K. M. & Tanenhaus, M. K. Using a novel experimental paradigm to investigate the processing of scalar implicatures. A poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis, March 2009; and a talk presented at XPRAG 2009, Lyon.

 

Carbary, K. M., Gunlogson, C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. Deaccenting cues listeners to upcoming referents. A talk presened at the LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2009; and a poster presented at the the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis, March 2009.

 

Carbary, K. & Tanenhaus, M. K. Syntactic priming and message encoding in unscripted dialogue. A talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). University of Cambridge, Sept. 2008.

 

Carbary, K. M., Gunlogson, C., Tanenhaus, M. K. Taking the accent off accessories: de-accenting as a cue during reference resolution. A poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody Conference at Cornell University, April 2008.

 

Grodner, D., Klein, N., Carbary, K., & Tanenhaus, M. Experimental evidence for rapid interpretation of pragmatic Òsome.Ó A talk presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, March, 2008; and a poster presented at XPRAG 2007, Berlin.

 

Carbary, K. M. & Tanenahus, M. K. Syntactic priming in an unscripted dialogue task. A poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UCSD, March 2007.

 

                                                                                                          

Teaching Experience (College Level)

 

Instructor, BCS 111, Foundations of Cognitive Science.

Co-taught with Sara Finley. University of Rochester, Summer 2009.

 

Instructor, BCS/PSYCH 112, Cognitive Psychology.

Co-taught with Mohinish Shukla. University of Rochester, Spring 2009.

 

Instructor, BCS 111, Foundations of Cognitive Science.

University of Rochester, Summer 2008.

 

 

Before I started teaching, I was TA for several classes, including:

 

BCS 152/PSYCH 152/LING 217: Language and Psycholinguistics. University of Rochester, Fall 2007.

 

LSA 363: Using Free-view Eyetracking to Study Spoken Language.

LSA Summer Linguistic Institute at Stanford University, Summer 2007.

 

Teaching Assistant/Discussion Section Leader, BCS 111, Foundations of Cognitive Science. University of Rochester, Spring 2007.

 

Teaching Assistant, BCS/PSYCH 112, Cognitive Psychology. University of Rochester, Spring 2006.

 

 

I will be teaching BCS/Psych 112 again in Spring 2010.