Professor Markus Damian

Professor Markus Damian
MA, PhD(Rice)

Profession of Psychology of Language

Area of research

Psycholinguistics

Office 1D20
12a Priory Road,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TU
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 3310543
m.damian@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

I am a cognitive psychologist with a special interest in the processes and mechanisms underlying language. My research is specifically concerned with those engaged when humans speak (as opposed to when they comprehend language). I investigate the way in which humans cognitively develop intentions of what they are trying to say, the way in which words are organised in and retrieved from a mental lexicon for the purpose of the utterance, and the processes involved in generating the appropriate articulation. Much of my work is based on chronometrical studies performed on adult populations; however, I have also been involved in ...

Biography

I received a Bachelor's Degree from the College of New Jersey (1993) and a Master's degree (1996) and a Ph.D. degree (1998) in cognitive psychology from Rice University, Houston. Between 1998 and 2000 I was a staff member in the language production group at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where I worked with Pim Levelt. I joined the School of Experimental Psychology in Bristol as a Lecturer in 2000, and have been a Professor since 2010.

Recent publications

Qu, Q, Damian, MF & Kazanina, N 2013, ‘Reply to O’Seaghdha et al.: Primary phonological planning units in Chinese are phonemically specified’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 110., pp. E4
Shen, XR, Damian, MFE & Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H 2013, ‘Abstract graphemic representations support preparation of handwritten responses’. Journal of Memory and Language, vol 68., pp. 69-84

Experimental Psychology

Professor Markus Damian