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Erika

Hussey

Research Psychologist, US Army NSRDEC

Interests: 

Executive Control, Language Processing, Memory

Units: 

Psychology

Degree(s): 

PhD in Psychology, UMD

Advisor(s): 

Jared Novick, Mike Dougherty

Graduation Year: 

2014

Contact: 

erikahussey@gmail.com

Role(s): 

Alumni

Website: 

Erika's Website

About: 

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 resolve such representational conflict. I am especially interested in 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 and cognitive fatigue. 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.

Collaborators: 

Rober DeKeyser
Steve Roth
Derek Monner
Giovanna Morini
Anna Chrabaszcz
Susan Teubner-Rhodes