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Elizabeth Schotter

Elizabeth Schotter

Associate Professor

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4119
Phone: 813/974-0377
Lab: PCD 3122
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BIO

Liz Schotter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, who joined the Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social program in August 2016. Her research focuses on understanding the neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing and comprehension during reading. Her research draws on theories and methods in cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and experimental psychology and her research lab uses eye tracking, electroencephalography (EEG) and co-registration of these two methods.

EDUCATION

  • 2013 - Ph.D.; (Cognitive) Psychology; University of California, San Diego
  • 2008 - M.A.; (Cognitive) Psychology; University of California, San Diego
  • 2007 – B.A.s; Psychology, Classics; Washington University in St. Louis

TEACHING

Psychology of Language (Undergraduate); Writing & Reviewing (Graduate); Presentation & Data Visualization (Graduate); Eye Tracking Research (Graduate)

RESEARCH

Eye movements & cognition; Language processing; visual processing; reading

SPECIALTY AREA

Cognitive

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(Student co-author in bold)

Schotter, E.R., Stringer, C., Saunders, E., Cooley, F.G., Sinclair, G., & Emmorey, K. (2024). The role of perceptual and word identification spans in reading efficiency: Evidence from hearing and deaf readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, in press.

Milligan, S. & Schotter, E.R. (2024). Do Readers Here What They Sea?: Effects of Lexicality, Predictability, and Individual Differences on the Phonological Preview Benefit. Journal of Memory and Language, 135, 104480

Stringer, C., Cooley, F.G., Saunders, E., Emmorey, K., & Schotter, E.R. (2024). An enhanced leftward word identification for deaf readers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, online first.

Milligan, S., Nestor, B., Antúnez, M., & Schotter, E.R. (2023). Out of sight, out of mind: Foveal processing is necessary for semantic integration of words into a sentence context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(5), 687–708.

Schotter, E.R., Milligan, S., & Estevez, V. (2023). Event-related potentials show that parafoveal vision is insufficient for semantic integration. Psychophysiology, 60(7), e14246.

Caliskan, N., Milligan, S. & Schotter, E.R. (2023). Readers scrutinize orthographic input only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials. Brain & Language. 238, 105232.

Milligan, S., Antúnez, M., Barber, H.A., & Schotter, E.R. (2023). Are eye movements and EEG on the same page?: A co-registration study on parafoveal preview of lexical frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 52(1), 188–210.

Antúnez, M., Milligan, S., Hernández-Cabrera, J.A., Barber, H.A., & Schotter, E.R. (2022). Semantic parafoveal processing in natural reading: Insight from fixation-related potentials & eye movements. Psychophysiology, 59, e13986.

Schotter, E.R., Johnson, E., & Lieberman, A. (2020). The sign superiority effect: Lexical status facilitates peripheral handshape identification for deaf signers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 46, 1397–1410

Schotter, E.R., (2018). Reading ahead by hedging our bets on seeing the future: Eye tracking and electrophysiology evidence for parafoveal lexical processing and saccadic control by partial word recognition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 68, 263-298.