Erika K Hussey

Erika K Hussey, B.A.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

    Psychology

    University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)

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  • Advisors:

    Jared Novick, Michael Dougherty

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
     
    B.A., Psychology, Cognitive Science, Economics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Carolyn Rovee-Collier (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Arnold Glass (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    My research investigates real-time language processing, including what factors shape individuals’ early
    processing commitments and how non-linguistic executive functions (e.g., cognitive control and cognitive
    flexibility) support the ability to revise interpretations in the event of misanalysis.

    My research investigates the malleability of executive functions (i.e., how individuals’ ability to regulate thought and behavior can change) using novel intervention paradigms such as longitudinal cognitive training and the induction of performance pressure. A major question that my research program asks is whether cognitive control abilities can be improved through practice, and the extent to which training-induced gains generalize to untrained language measures that rely on shared cognitive control functions. Recording eye movements during real-time reading tasks help address these issues.

    Additional research interests include the use of candidate genes to understand the relationship between cognitive flexibility and cognitive stability, the effects of individual differences in stress resiliency and emotional regulation on cognitive control, the neurological elucidation of what constitutes greater plasticity of cognitive abilities, and the development of well-specified interventions that may be used to accelerate second-language learning or attenuate the problems encounter by individuals with language impairments.

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  • Other Experience:

    2008-present NSF IGERT Program, University of Maryland, College Park

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  • Honors:

    2008-present National Science Foundation IGERT: Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity Program

    2008 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation GRFP

    2007-2008 Paul Robeson Scholar

    2007 Marilyn L. Shaw Award

    2006 Aresty Undergraduate Research Award

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Erika Hussey's Posters and Presentations (15)

  • Improving garden-path recovery through cognitive control training. (poster)

    Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S., Harbison, I., Dougherty, M., Bunting, M., & Novick, J.

    CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing; 03/2011
  • Improving sentence comprehension through cognitive training. (poster)

    Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S., Harbison, I., Dougherty, M., Bunting, M., & Novick, J.

    American Association for the Advancement of Science; 02/2011
  • Cognitive control training improves garden path recovery. (poster)

    Teubner-Rhodes, S., Hussey, E., Harbison, I., Dougherty, M., Bunting, M., & Novick, J.

    Psychonomic Society; 11/2010
  • Improving garden-path recovery in healthy adults through cognitive control training (presentation)

    Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S., Novick, J., & Dougherty, M.

    Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, <12% Talk Acceptance Rate; 09/2010
  • Parsing under pressure: The role of performance pressure in cognitive control and syntactic ambiguity resolution. (poster)

    Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S., Novick, J., & Dougherty, M.

    CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing; 03/2010
  • Implications of self-terminated memory search for understanding retrieval dynamics. (presentation)

    Dougherty, M., Hussey, E., Harbison, J.

    Psychonomic Society; 11/2009
  • Implications of self-terminated memory search for understanding retrieval dynamics. (presentation)

    Dougherty, M., Hussey, E., Harbison, J.

    Psychonomic Society; 11/2009
  • Performance gains in an adaptive n-back working memory training task. (poster)

    Harbison, J., Atkins, S., Dougherty, M., Bunting, M., Novick, J., Weems, S., Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S.

    Psychonomic Society; 11/2009
  • The effect of affect on cognitive control and sentence processing (poster)

    Hussey, E., Teubner-Rhodes, S., Dougherty, M., & Novick, J.

    Psychonomic Society; 11/2009
  • The dynamics of memory retrieval in self-terminated search. (presentation)

    Dougherty, M., Hussey, E., & Harbison, J.I.

    Cognitive Science Society; 07/2009
  • Decomposition of audiovisual interactions using event-related fields and independent component analysis. (poster)

    Pangelinan, M., Hussey, E., Wilson, S., & Poeppel, D.

    International Multisensory Research Forum; 06/2009
  • Cognitive foundations of risk perception and risk-seeking behavior (poster)

    Hussey, E. & Dougherty, M.

    Society for Judgment and Decision Making; 11/2008
  • Low-level audio-visual interactions in MEG during spatial localization (poster)

    Pangelinan, M., Hussey, E., Wilson, S., Schlappal, A., Zhao, C., & Poeppel, D.

    Society for Neuroscience; 11/2008
  • Evidence for All-or-None Feature-Level Learning of Novel Shape Trigrams (poster)

    E Hussey

    Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium; 04/2007
  • Repetition Blindness: Multiple Phenomena with Multiple Causes (presentation)

    Brill, G., Glass, A. G., Rashid, H., & Hussey, E

    Eastern Psychological Association; 03/2006

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