Paul Engelhardt
Postdoctoral Reasearch Fellow
Psycholinguistics and Visual Cognition Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Edinburgh
Advisors: Fernanda Ferreira Tom Carr
Research Interests:
- Experimental Pragmatics
- Maxim of Quantity - processing of under and over-specified referential expressions
- Sentence Processing
- Interaction of visual and prosodic information
- Coordination ambiguity - processing of gapped coordination structures
- Constraints on adjective ordering
- Language functioning in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Education:
- Ph.D., 2008, Michigan State University, Psychology, with specialization in Cognitive Science
- M.A., 2006, Michigan State University, Psychology
- B.S., 2001, University of Nebraska Omaha, Psychology
Research Activity:
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Publications:
- Engelhardt, P. E., Ferreira, F., & Patsenko, E. G. (in press). Pupillometry reveals processing load during spoken language comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, xx, xx-xx.
- Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (in press). Processing coordination ambiguity. Language and Speech, xx, xx-xx.
- 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, 916-928.
- 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.
- Engelhardt, P. E. (2008). Generalized Implicatures: Do uniformative environments eliminate default interpretations? Doctoral Dissertation. Michigan State University.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Engelhardt, P. E., Corley, M., Nigg, J. T., & Ferreira, F. (submitted) The role of inhibition, intelligence, and working memory on the production of disfluencies.
- Ferreira, F., Engelhardt, P. E., & Jones, M. W. (submitted). Good enough language processing: A heuristic approach.
- Engelhardt, P. E., & Ferreira, F. (in prep). Adjective production supports speaker's preference for uniform information density.
- Engelhardt, P. E., Munn, A., & Ferreira, F. (in prep). Processing evidence as support for syntactic and semantic aspects of coordination.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.] - 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- 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.
- Engelhardt, P. E. (January, 2009). Anticipatory eye movements mediated by word order constraints. Talk presented at Visual Cognition Seminar, Edinburgh, U.K.
- Engelhardt, P. E. (September, 2008). Interaction of information sources in spoken language comprehension. Talk presented at Behavioral Biology Group, East Lansing, Michigan.
- Engelhardt, P. E. (April, 2008). Pupillometric measures of visual and prosodic information on parsing. Talk presented at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany.
- Engelhardt, P. E. (November, 2007). Pupillometric indices of visual and prosodic information on spoken language comprehension. Talk presented at Cognitive Forum, East Lansing Michigan.
- 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.
- 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.
Service:
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Ad-Hoc Reviewing:
- Visual Cognition
- Cognition
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2008
- Journal of Memory and Language
- Cognitive Science Annual Meeting 2009
- Journal of Pragmatics
- PreCogSci Workshop 2009: Production of Referential Expressions
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
- Scientific Studies of Reading
- Cognitive Forum Coordinator - Cognitive interest group Michigan State University: 2004-2006
- Psychology Department Purdue University - Consulting on data collection and analysis with ISCAN-ETL 500 head-mounted eye tracking system.
Fellowships, Awards, and Memberships:
- 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 - student 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:
- 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 and past undergraduate research assistants:
- Laura Speed (current) - University of Edinburgh, undergraduate psychology
- 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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