Gerald Altmann
Professor
Degree: | Ph.D., 1986, University of Edinburgh |
Webpages: | Psycholinguist: Gerry Altmann |
Research Interests: | Sentence processing; event cognition; object representation |
Research Synopsis: | My research focuses on how, as language unfolds, we incrementally build representations of the events described by that unfolding language. I use a mix of behavioral methods (predominantly eye-tracking) and neuroscientific methods (fMRI, EEG). Some of my research focuses also on how high-level knowledge impacts on lower-level attentional processing (and eye movement control). |
Courses: | Undergraduate: PSYC 3500 â Introduction to Psychology of Language
Graduate: Event Cognition |
Students in Research: | Zac Ekves
Yanina Prystauka Kyra Krass Emily Yearling |
Recent publications: | Altmann, G.T.M. & Ekves, Z., (2019). Events as intersecting object histories: A new theory of event representation. Psychological Review. doi: 10.1037/rev0000154
Mirkovic, J., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019). Unfolding meaning in context: The dynamics of conceptual similarity. Cognition, 183, 19-43. |
Representative Publications: |
Altmann, G.T.M. (2017). Abstraction and generalization in statistical learning: implications for the relationship between semantic types and episodic tokens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372: 20160060. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0060
Staudte, M. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2016). Recalling what was where when seeing nothing there. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1104-8
Solomon, S. H., Hindy, N. C., Altmann, G. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2015). Competition between mutually exclusive object states in event comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(12), 2324-2338
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Research Opportunities: | Dr. Altmann is currently looking for undergrads to work in his lab. Connect with him to learn more. |

gerry.altmann@uconn.edu | |
Mailing Address | 406 Babbidge Road Storrs, CT 06269 Unit-1020 |
Office Location | Bousfield 134C |
Link | http://psych.uconn.edu/perception-action-cognition-division/ |