Welcome to my home page. I'm the one on the right; that's
Nancy, a National Distinguished Principal, on the left. This
photo was taken in Grenada, shortly before a large wave came up and
destroyed the camera.
I'm a cognitive psychologist in the Department of Psychology at The
University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I'm also a faculty member
in the Institute of Cognitive Science. My research interests
include information processing models of memory and learning, and
discourse processes. A major focus of my research has been on how
mental comparisons are made. Among the issues I study here are
the nature of the magnitude information underlying comparison, how
contextual information affects the computational algorithms in
comparison, and how new information may be integrated with old
information. Recent work in my lab looks at the contributions of
categorization and attentional processes in this domain. I am
also interested in contextual effects on discourse processes, and how
design features of computer-mediated communication can influence the
ways in which people work with one another. Both of these lines
of research essentially involve the question of strategic processing:
How do people modify their actions in different situations to optimize
what they are doing? Other interests include sensitivity to
situational frequency and the underlying representations that such
sensitivity is based upon; memory illusions; mental models, and
VR.
Cognitive Science Student Presentations and
Publications (last updated 9/2010)
Psychology 435 (Principles of Learning)
Psychology 405
(Cognitive Illusions)
Psychology 360
(Cognitive Psychology)
PSYC 516/COGS 511
Review Sheets for
Psychology 110
The Cognitive
Science Proposal
The
Psychology Department Home Page
The Institute Of
Cognitive Science
The
Cognitive Science Mind & Matter Colloquium Series
Research
Interests
Publications and
Presentations (Since 1995)
Acadiana's
Cultural Events Calendar
You can reach me by e-mail at cech@louisiana.edu