Biography

I’m currently a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. My research interests include language processing, quantitative methods, and second language acquisition. I am currently most focused on projects investigating how comprehenders obtain non-literal interpretations of language input, but I am interested in exploring whether and the ability to gain non-literal interpretations of language connects to broader phenomena such as misinformation, text (mis)comprehension, and memory.

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Interests
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Language Processing
Education

  • PhD in Cognitive Psychology, anticipated June 2024

    University of Pittsburgh

  • M.S. in Cognitive Psychology, 2021

    University of Pittsburgh

  • B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Applied Math, 2016

    University of Pittsburgh

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Student Researcher
University of Pittsburgh MAPLE Lab
Aug 2018 – Present Pittsburgh, PA
Designed and conducted novel research projects in cognitive science across several lines of work.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Science Intern
Air Force Research Labs
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 Dayton, OH
Analyzed conversation data from real-world and lab tasks using NLP and statistical tools
 
 
 
 
 
Political Data Fellow
Bluebonnet Data
Feb 2021 – Jun 2021 remote
Provided data support and consulting for a mayoral campaign in St. Petersburg, Florida.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Associate
University of Utah Applied Cognition Lab
Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 Salt Lake City, Utah
Conducted human factors research evaluating the usability of automotive user interfaces.

Recent Posts

Tidy Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
FIFA World Cup The Tidy Tuesday data comes this week from Kaggle. More info about the Tidy Tuesday dataset can be found at the Tidy Tuesday Github This dataset has information on teams, scores, dates, and days of the week for every World Cup match ever played.
Dec 5, 2022 4 min read
A Short Tutorial on Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals
Bootstrapping! Why is it useful? I think bootstrapping is extremely cool for two reasons: it allows you to estimate error for any statistic you can imagine, and it does not make any assumptions about the distribution of the underlying data, in contrast to most test statistics.
Nov 26, 2022 9 min read
Tidy Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Webpage Performance Metrics This weeks Tidy Tuesday had data on several different metrics of webpage performance. I only chose to do the webpage populating speed, and break it up by desktop vs.
Nov 15, 2022 2 min read
Protecting against sketchy research practices: p-values, effect sizes, and power analyses
In my statistics class this Spring, we had a discussion about scientific reproducibility and practices that can lead to p-hacking. Two points came up in the class discussion that I have been interested to test on a real dataset.
Jun 21, 2019 12 min read

Recent Publications

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Doug Getty, Scott H. Fraundorf (2022). Non-literal Syntactic Representations are Driven by Predictive Processing: Evidence from Meta-Analysis and Speaker Accent.

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Rodica Constantine, Doug Getty, Scott H. Fraundorf (2022). The role of priming in grammatical acceptability judgements for native versus non-native speakers: Effects of intelligibility. PLOS.

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