Welcome to my home page. 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 and
an adjunct with the university's Center for Advanced Computer Studies.
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; and mental models.
Below, while I'm constructing this page, are some links to a text I'm working
on for Principles of Learning (Psychology 435), the Cognitive Science Proposal
my committee drafted and presented to the Louisiana Board of Regents for
a multidisciplinary doctoral program in cognitive science, and more on my research
interests and recent work. More later...
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Psychology 435 (Principles of Learning)
Psychology 360 (Cognitive Psychology)
PSYC 516/COGS 511
Review Sheets for Psychology 110
The Psychology Department Subject Pool
The Cognitive Science Proposal
The Psychology Department Home Page
The Institute Of Cognitive Science
The Spring 2001 Cognitive Science Mind & Matter Colloquium
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The Spring 2002 Cognitive Science Mind & Matter Colloquium
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The Fall 2002 Cognitive Science Mind & Matter Colloquium
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Research Interests
Publications and Presentations (Since 1995)
Acadiana's Cultural Events Calendar
You can reach me by e-mail at cech@louisiana.edu