John Trueswell | University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

Professor; Graduate Group Chair

Department:

Psychology

Education:

BA, Cognitive Science, University of Rochester; Ph.D., Psychology, University of Rochester

Address:

3401 Walnut St., Room 409C

Phone:

215-898-0911

Email:

trueswel@psych.upenn.edu; dgs@psych.upenn.edu

Personal Page

Research Themes:

Developmental Psychology

Language and Communication

Memory and Learning

Sensation and Perception

Specific Research Areas:

Word learning, grammar learning, and real-time language comprehension

Research Synopsis:

I'm interested in word learning, grammar learning, and real-time language comprehension. In much of my research, I record the eye movements of children and adults while they hear spoken utterances hat describe the visual world around them.

Representative Courses:

PSYC 151 Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 600 Language

Appointments:

Psychology Graduate Group; Linguistics Graduate Group

Advisees:

Christine Boylan [Psychology Graduate Student]

Representative Publications:

Trueswell, J.C. & Kim, A.E. (1998). How to prune a garden-path by nipping it in the bud: Fast-priming of verb argument structures. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 102-123.

Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M. & Logrip, M.L. (1999). The kindergarten-path effect: studying on-line sentence processing in young children. Cognition, 73, 89-134.

Snedeker, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The developing constraints on parsing decisions: The role of lexical-biases and referential scenes in child and adult sentence processing. Cognitive Psychology, 49(3), 238-299.

Kaiser, E. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The Role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language. Cognition, 94(2) 113-147.

Trueswell, J. C., & Gleitman, L. R. (2007) Learning to parse and its implications for language acquisition, in G. Gaskell (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Psycholing. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics. In I.A. Sekerina, E.M. Fernández, and H. lahsen (eds.) Language Processing in Children. John Benjamins.

Novick, J.M., Thompson-Schill, S. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual-world paradigm. Cognition, Volume 107, Issue 3, 850-903.

Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements. Cognition, Volume 108, Issue 1, July 2008, Pages 155-184.