Paul Engelhardt
Lecturer
Cognition and Communication Research Centre
Department of Psychology
Northumbria University
Current Collaborators: Fernanda Ferreira, Joel Nigg, Baris Demiral,
Research Interests:
- Experimental Pragmatics
- Maxim of Quantity - processing of under- and over-specified referential expressions
- Sentence Processing
- Interaction of information sources
- Coordination ambiguity - processing of gapped coordination structures
- Processing pre-nominal adjectives
- Language comprehension and production in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Education:
- Ph.D., 2008, Michigan State University, Psychology, with specialization in Cognitive Science (Advisor: Fernanda Ferreira)
- M.A., 2006, Michigan State University, Psychology
- B.S., 2001, University of Nebraska Omaha, Psychology
Research Activity:
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
- [1] Engelhardt, P. E., Demiral, S. B., & Ferreira, F. (in press). Over-specified referential expressions impair comprehension: An ERP study. Brain and Cognition, xx, xx-xx.
- [2] Shields, K., Engelhardt, P. E., & Ietswaart, M. (in press). Processing emotion information from both the face and body: An eye movement study. Cognition and Emotion, xx, xx-xx.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E., Ferreira, F., & Nigg, J. T. (2011). Language production strategies and disfluencies in multi-clause network descriptions: A study of adult Attention-Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder. Neuropsychology, 25(4), 442-453.[Manuscript]
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (2010). Processing coordination ambiguity. Language and Speech, 53(3), 494-509.[Manuscript]
- [5] Engelhardt, P. E., Corley, M., Nigg, J. T., & Ferreira, F. (2010) The role of inhibition in the production of disfluencies. Memory and Cognition, 38, 617-628.[Manuscript]
- [6] Engelhardt, P. E., Ferreira, F., & Patsenko, E. G. (2010). Pupillometry reveals processing load during spoken language comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 639-645.[Manuscript]
- [7] Engelhardt, P. E., Ferreira, F., & Nigg, J. T. (2009). Priming sentence production in adolescents and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 995-1006.[Manuscript]
- [8] Engelhardt, P. E., Nigg, J. T., Carr, L. A., & Ferreira, F. (2008). Cognitive inhibition and working memory in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 591-605.[Manuscript]
- [9] Engelhardt, P. E., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 554-573. [Manuscript]
- [1] Ferreira, F., & Engelhardt, P. E. (2011). Reaching sentence and reference meaning. In P. Pyykkonen & M. W. Crocker (Eds.), Visually Situated Language Comprehension. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Inc.
- [2] Ferreira, F., Engelhardt, P. E., & Jones, M. W. (2009). Good enough language processing: A satisficing approach. In N. Taatgen, H. Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 413-418). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.[Manuscript]
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E. (2008). Generalized Implicatures: Do uniformative environments eliminate default interpretations? Doctoral Dissertation. Michigan State University.[Manuscript]
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E., Xiang, M., & Ferreira, F. (2008). Anticipatory eye movements mediated by word order constraints. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 951-957). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [Manuscript]
- [5] Engelhardt, P. E., Patsenko, E. G., & Ferreira, F. (2007). Pupillometric indices of visual and prosodic information on spoken language comprehension. In D. S. McNamara & J. C. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 971-976). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.[Manuscript]
- [6] Ferreira, F., & Engelhardt, P. E. (2006). Syntax and Production. In M. A. Gernsbacher & M. Traxler (Eds.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 61-91). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Inc. [Manuscript]
- [1] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (under review). Are listener's sensitive to articulation differences in over-described referring expressions: A test of the Audience Design Hypothesis.
- [2] Engelhardt, P. E., Hambrick, D. Z., Ferreira, F., Martel, M. M., & Nigg, J. T. (under review). The relationship between disfluent speech, intelligence, and executive function: A latent variable analysis.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E., Davies, R. H., & Shields, K. (under review). Children's and adolescent's processing of temporary syntactic ambiguity: An eye movement study.
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E., & Shields, K. (under review). Looking away while remembering: An eye movement study comparing children and adolescents.
- [1] Engelhardt, P. E., Fernandez, L. B., & Ferreira, F. (in preparation). Garden path reanalysis affects memory for subsequent material: Evidence for good-enough language processing.
- [2] Ferreira, F., Engelhardt, P. E., Jones, M. W., & Foucart, A. (in preparation). Good enough language processing: A heuristic approach.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E., Veld, S., Nigg, J. T., & Ferreira, F. (in preparation). Residual attention problems in adults diagnosed with ADHD as children: A language production study.
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E., Shields, K., & Veld, S. (in preparation). Naturalistic observation of expressive communication in non-verbal autistic children: A classroom observation study.
- [1] Shields, K., & Engelhardt, P. E. (May, 2010). Understanding the relationship between facial and bodily expressions of emotion. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- [2] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (August, 2009). Anticipatory eye movements based on contrastive inferences are modulated by the informativeness of the context. Paper presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements. South Hampton, United Kingdom.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E., Xiang, M., & Ferreira, F. (August, 2008). Anticipatory eye movements mediated by word order constraints. Paper presented at the 30th Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2005). Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Toronto, Ontario.
- [5] Ferreira, F., Engelhardt, P. E., & Bailey, K. G. D.(May, 2004). Eye movements and parsing of spoken sentences. Paper presented at the 6th European Workshop on Language Comprehension.Oleron, France.
- [6] Engelhardt, P. E., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2004). "But it's already on a towel!" Reconsidering the one-referent visual context. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland.
[Talk accepted for the special session on the relationship between production and comprehension.] - [1] Engelhardt, P. E. & Ferreira, F. (September, 2011). Are listener's sensitive to articulation differences in over-described referring expressions: A test of the Audience Design Hypothesis. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Paris, France.
- [2] Fernandez, L. B.& Engelhardt, P. E. (September, 2011). Anticipatory eye movements in wh-movement: A comparison of younger and older adults. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Paris, France.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E., & Davies, R. H. (August, 2011). Children's and adolescent's processing of temporary syntactic ambiguity: A reading study. Poster to be presented at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements. Marseille, France.
- [4] Stevenson, E., & Engelhardt, P. E. (May, 2010). Are obsessive-compulsive symptoms associated with higher verbal abilities in children and adolescents. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- [5] Fernandez, L. B.& Engelhardt, P. E. (May, 2010). Coordination ambiguity: Combining like elements in online language comprehension. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- [6] Engelhardt, P. E., Demiral, S. B., & Ferreira, F. (September, 2010). Over-specified referential expressions impair comprehension: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. York, U.K.
- [7] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (September, 2010). Disfluencies and eye movements in the production of complex noun phrases. Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Production. Edinburgh, U.K.
- [8] Engelhardt, P. E., Corley, M., Nigg, J. T., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2010). The role of inhibition in the production of disfluencies. Poster to be presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, New York.
- [9] Engelhardt, P. E., Demiral, S. B., Semizer, Y., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2010). Over-specified referential expressions impair comprehension: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, New York.
- [10] Engelhardt, P. E., Corley, M., Nigg, J. T., & Ferreira, F. (September, 2009). The role of inhibition, intelligence, and working memory on the production of disfluencies. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference.Barcelona, Spain
- [11] Ferreira, F., Engelhardt, P. E., & Jones, M. W. (July, 2009). Good enough language processing: A satisficing approach. Poster to be presented at the 31st Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- [12] Engelhardt, P. E., Munn, A., & Ferreira, F. (August, 2007). Processing evidence as support for syntactic and semantic aspects of coordination. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Turku, Finland.
- [13] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (August, 2007). Processing coordination ambiguity: Frequency and context do not override the preference for syntactic simplicity. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference.Turku, Finland.
- [14] Engelhardt, P. E., Patsenko, E. G., & Ferreira, F. (August, 2007). Pupillometric indices of visual and prosodic information on spoken language comprehension. Poster presented at the 29th Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, Tennessee.
- [15] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2006). Processing coordination ambiguity in the visual world: Frequency and context do not override the preference for syntactic simplicity. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Houston, Texas.
- [16] Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (September, 2006). Processing coordination ambiguity in the visual world. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [poster] [references]
- [17] Engelhardt, P. E., Patsenka, A. G., Francis, A. P., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2006). Pupillometric effects of visual and prosodic information on parsing. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, New York.[poster] [references]
- [18] Engelhardt, P. E., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2005). Topic structure disambiguation of coordination ambiguities. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Tuscon, Arizona.
- [19] Xiang, M., Engelhardt, P. E., Woodruff, A. E. T., & Ferreira, F. (March, 2005). Word order and the visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Tuscon, Arizona. [poster]
- [20] Engelhardt, P. E., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2004). Garden Pathing or Syntactic Priming: A Closer look at the Visual World Paradigm. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- [21] Sollars, S. I. & Engelhardt, P. E. (April, 2003). Golgi analysis of neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract of neonatal chorda tympani transected rats. Chemical Senses, 28, A10. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Sarasota, FL.
- [1] Engelhardt, P. E. (September, 2010). The role of inhibition in sentence production: A study of adolescents and adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Talk presented at the Newcastle University, Centre for Research in Lingusitics and Language Sciences away day. Newcastle, U.K.
- [2] Engelhardt, P. E. (November, 2009). Quantity of information in referential communication. Talk presented at the Cognition and Communication Research Centre Language Retreat, Newcastle, U.K.
- [3] Engelhardt, P. E. (January, 2009). Anticipatory eye movements mediated by word order constraints. Talk presented at Visual Cognition Seminar, Edinburgh, U.K.
- [4] Engelhardt, P. E. (September, 2008). Interaction of information sources in spoken language comprehension. Talk presented at Behavioral Biology Group, East Lansing, Michigan.
- [5] Engelhardt, P. E. (April, 2008). Pupillometric measures of visual and prosodic information on parsing. Talk presented at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany.
- [6] Engelhardt, P. E. (November, 2007). Pupillometric indices of visual and prosodic information on spoken language comprehension. Talk presented at Cognitive Forum, East Lansing Michigan.
- [7] Engelhardt, P. E. (December, 2006). Garden-path reanalysis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is related to interference control in working memory. Talk presented at Cognitive Forum, East Lansing Michigan.
- [8] Engelhardt, P. E. (November, 2005). Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Talk presented at the 2005 Andrews University Psy Chi induction ceremony. Berrien Springs, Michigan.
External Funding:
- 2011: An investigation of language production processes in typical and atypical development: An eye movement study of children with ADHD. Paul Engelhardt (Supervising Investigator), Mhairi McMullon (Undergraduate Investigator). Nuffield Foundation Research Bursaries - £1500.
Service:
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Ad-Hoc Reviewing:
- Cognition
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2008
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2009
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2010
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2011
- Economic and Social Research Council - grant reviewer
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Journal of Memory and Language
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Learning and Individual Differences
- Linguistics
- Oxford University Press - textbook reviewer
- PreCogSci Workshop 2009: Production of Referential Expressions
- Scientific Studies of Reading
- Self and Identity
- Topics in Cognitive Science
- Visual Cognition
- Post-Graduate (taught) Ethics Chair - Northumbria University: 2011
- Faculty Search Committee - Northumbria University, job title-Research Associate in Cognitive Developmental Psychology: 2010
- Northumbria University Research Ethics Committee - faculty reviewer: 2010
- Cognitive Forum Coordinator - Cognitive interest group Michigan State University: 2004-2006
- International Benchmark Reveiw or UK Psychology: Sponsored by the RCUK, ESRC, BPS, and EPS, with the aim of enhancing capacity and contribution of psychology research, and to promote and shape future research agendas.
- Psychology Department Purdue University - Consulting on data collection and analysis with ISCAN-ETL 500 head-mounted eye tracking system.
Fellowships, Awards, and Memberships:
- 2010: Post-Graduate Supervisors Bursary - Northumbria University Graduate School (£300)
- 2009-present: Association for Psychological Science - member
- 2008: ESRC - 2 year Research Fellowship, University of Edinburgh
- 2008: Psychology Department - travel fellowship ($500)
- 2007: Michigan State University - international travel fellowship ($2000)
- 2007-present: Cognitive Science Society - member
- 2007: Psychology Department - travel fellowship ($500)
- 2003: NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
- 2002: Regent's tuition wavier - University of Nebraska Omaha
- 1999: Psy Chi National Honor Society in Psychology
- 1998-2001: Dean's List - University of Nebraska Omaha
Teaching:
- 2010: Psychology 0601 - Advanced Cognitive Psychology, Northumbria University
- 2009: 4th year tutorials - Psychology, University of Edinburgh
- 2008: Psychology 209, Brain and Behavior, Michigan State University - Instructor [Syllabus]
- 2007: Psychology 200, Cognitive Psychology, Michigan State University - Instructor [Syllabus]
- 2003: Psychology 4214, Sensation and Perception Laboratory, University of Nebraska Omaha - Teaching assistant
- 2002: Psychology 4074, Cognition Laboratory, University of Nebraska Omaha - Teaching assistant
- 2001: Psychology 4230, Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Omaha -Teaching assistant [Teaching evaluations available on request.]
Current supervision Ph.D. students and research assistants:
- Leigh Fernandez (2010-2013) - Northumbria University, Ph.D. student in experimental psycholinguistics
- Sean Veld (2010-2013) - Northumbria University, Ph.D. student in experimental psycholinguistics
- Kerry Shields (2010-2011) - Northumbria University, Senior Research Assistant
- Mhairi McMullon (2010-2011) - Northumbria University, R.A. - 3rd year psychology student
- Rebecca Jennings (2010-2011) - Northumbria University, R.A. - 3rd year psychology student
Former undergraduate research assistants:
- Alison Brown (2010-2011) - University of Durham - post-graduate student Developmental Neuropsychology
- Laura Speed (2008-2009) - University of Edinburgh, undergraduate psychology
- Yelda Semizer (2009) - Bogazici University, Turkey, undergraduate psychology (visiting student ERASMUS programme)
- Fiona Allen (2009) - University of Edinburgh, Alumni psychology
- Joe Jalbert (2007-2008) - Michigan State University, Linguistics graduate student
- Sam Bissell (2006-2007) - Ohio State University, Speech and Language Pathology graduate student
- Timothy Bond (2006) - Lawrence Technological University, undergraduate computer science and psychology
- Kelly Spegel (2005-2007) - Michigan State University, Alumni psychology
- Elizabeth Davis (2004-2006) - Purdue University, Educational Psychology graduate student
- Emily France (2003-2005) - Wayne State University, medical student
Hobbies and interests:
- Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing.
- Cycling with Psychologists: Timothy Desmet, Zenzi Griffin, Tim Pleskac
- Okinwan Karate and Kobudo: Dr. Yozan Dirk Mosig
- Social and political structure of the southern tribes of the Teton (or Lakota) Sioux.
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