Dr. Ashley Abraham
Assistant Professor
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Education: Ph.D., 2020
Kent State University
Specialization:
Cognitive Psychology
Phone:
(618) 650-5709
Office:
AH-0136
About Dr. Abraham
Ashley N. Abraham received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Kent State University in 2020. Before joining SIUE, she was a visiting professor at the College of Wooster and Grinnell College. She also holds a M.A. in Journalism and Communications from American University. Dr. Abraham’s research interests include language processing, particularly written language processing, word recognition, and individual differences in reading skill. She is fascinated by the ubiquitous and uniquely human ability to create and acquire language. Her work focuses on understanding the nature of lexical representation and the cognitive architecture that supports skilled reading. Dr. Abraham’s teaching interests include cognitive psychology, psychology of language, research methods, and history of psychology. Ashley enjoys spending time with her family and her dogs, Maximus “Max” The Mighty and Indiana “Indy” Jones.
Mentoring Expertise
Dr. Abraham is available to mentor students who are interested in language, reading, and attention or students who are interested in experimental cognitive psychology.
Representative Publications
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Abraham, A.N., Eskenazi, M.A., Roche, J.R., & Folk, J.M. (2018). Parafoveal-on-Foveal Effects in High-Skill Spellers: Disambiguating Previews Influence Ambiguous Word Recognition. In C. Kalish, A. Howes, M. Rau, J. Zhu & T.T., Rogers (Eds), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1274-1279). Madison, WI. Cognitive Science Society.
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Abraham, A.N. & Folk, J.R (under review). Parafoveal Preview Effects on Ambiguous Word Recognition.
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Eskenazi, M.A., Swischuk, NK., Folk, J.R., & Abraham, A.N. (2018). Uninformative contexts support word learning for high-skill spellers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
