Kathleen Pirog
Graduate Student, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Contact Information
- Meliora 408
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- University of Rochester
- Rochester, NY 14627-0268
- (585) 275-0751 (office)
Education
2002 BS, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2006 MA, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Research Overview
My interests include spoken word recognition, neural basis for semantic/lexical organization & access, intersections between language and the external world, eyetracking, and fMRI.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Krukowski, A. E., Pirog, K. A., Beutter, B. R., Brooks, K. R., & Stone, L. S. (2003). Human discrimination of visual direction of motion with and without smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Vision, 3(11), 831-840, http://journalofvision.org/3/11/16/, doi: 10.1167/3.11.16.
Conference Presentations
- Pirog, K. A., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Aslin, R. N. Lexical competitors activate brain regions that mediate semantic properties. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, QC (October 2006).
- Pirog, K. A., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Aslin, R. N. Lexical competitors activate brain regions that mediate semantic properties. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2006).
- Pirog, K. A., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Aslin, R. N. The effect of visual properties on the organization of an artificial lexicon. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD (March 2004).
- Krukowski, A. E., Pirog, K. A., Beutter, B. R., Brooks, K. R., & Stone, L. S. Visual direction discrimination with and without pursuit. Poster presented at the Society for Neural Control of Movement Conference, Santa Barbara, CA (March 2003).
- Garnsey, S. M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Pirog, K. A. Individual differences in the use of parafoveal cues in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the Sixteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA (march 2003).
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