Delphine
Dahan
Department of
Psychology
Room 412
Phone: (215) 898 0326
Fax: (215) 573 9247
I am interested in
how adults represent and access the words they know. I have been using an
eye-tracking methodology that consists of monitoring participants' eye
movements to visually present objects as they process spoken instructions
asking them to pick up one of the objects. The time it takes people to fixate
the referred object, as well as fixations to the other objects, are informative
about the mapping of sound forms onto lexical representations.
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For a list of
publications, click here
Academic History
M.A.,
Cognitive Psychology,
Ph.D.,
Psychology,
Postdoc fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Postdoc fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins
University, 1996-1997
Postdoc fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science,
University of Rochester, 1997-1999
Scientific
staff member, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
American
Psychological Association, Division of Experimental Psychology, New
Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: General, 2000
Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-present
Teaching
Undergraduate
o
Psyc 135-001 Psychology of Language.
Offered: Spring 2004, Spring 2005
This course describes the nature of human language, as well as the linguistic
knowledge and mental processes involved in language use (in production,
comprehension, and acquisition).
The syllabus for Spring 2004 can be viewed here.
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Psyc 335-301 Research Experience in Language
Offered: Fall 2004
This course focuses on how to conduct research in psycholinguistics, and more
precisely, on the comprehension of spoken language, using behavioral methods
such as the monitoring of eye movements during listening. Students are involved
in designing an experiment, constructing materials, testing, as well as
analyzing the data.
Graduate
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Psyc 736-301 Special Topics in Language
Offered: Spring
2005
This seminar examines core areas of research on language processing (in
particular speech perception and [spoken and written] word recognition) based
on behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain imaging data, with an emphasis on
computational models.
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