Kevin Mulqueeny

Kevin Mulqueeny, B.A.

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

    Psychology

    University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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  • Advisor:

    Janellen Huttenlocher

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  • Degrees:
     
    M.A. (in progress), Psychology, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Psychology, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
     
    B.A., Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis (Saint Louis, MO)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Mitchell Sommers (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Brendan S. Weekes (as Visiting Student)
     
    Rebecca Treiman (as Research Associate)
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  • Research:
    My current research is examining the relationship between figure and ground in talk about the location of objects in space.

    In describing the location of objects in the real world, there are many options to act as the ground (or reference object) for a target figure. For example, a ball can be on a table, in the kitchen, and in front of the boy, all at the same time. How do we decide the most effective way of describing the location of that ball? Talmy and Tversky & Lee suggest that size, movability, and salience are some potential factors that impact the figure-ground relationship. My research seeks to discover how English speakers use grounds in their descriptions of the locations of figures. Are there changes as children's spatial language develops? Can these factors be pitted against each other to deduce which has the greatest influence?

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  • Other Experience:

    2003 Rehabilitation Trainee for Adults with TBI, ResCare

    2002-2003 Teaching Assistant for Special Education, Indian Prairie Dist. #204

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  • Honors:

    2008-2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

    2007 Hyman Meltzer Memorial Award in Psychology

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Kevin Mulqueeny's Publications (1)



Kevin Mulqueeny's Posters and Presentations (5)

  • Further Studies of Acoustic Variability and Vocabulary Learning (presentation)

    Mitchell Sommers, Joe Barcroft, & Kevin Mulqueeny

    Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL; 11/2008
  • Phonological false recollection: An EEG study (poster)

    Brendan S. Weekes, Kevin Mulqueeny, & Robyn E. Holliday

    British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dundee, U.K.; 08/2007
  • The effects of talker variability on English vocabulary learning (poster)

    Kevin Mulqueeny

    Washington University Undergraduate Research Symposium, St. Louis, MO; 05/2007
  • Effects of spelling rime consistency on phonological false recollection (poster)

    Kevin Mulqueeny, Sarah Snook, Robyn E. Holliday, & Brendan S. Weekes

    Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX; 11/2006
  • Young children's knowledge about printed names (poster)

    Rebecca Treiman, Jeremy Cohen, Kevin Mulqueeny, Brett Kessler, & Suzanne Schechtman

    Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, Canada; 07/2006

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