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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 101

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H. Wind Cowles, PhD

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H. Wind Cowles, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics
at the University of Florida. She received her PhD in Cognitive
Science and Linguistics in 2003 from UC San Diego and was a
research fellow in Experimental Psychology at the University
of Sussex with Professor Alan Garnham. Her main research
focus is on the role thatdiscourse and information structure
play in the written comprehension and spoken production of
sentences. Her research applies multiple research techniques,
including eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials, to
questions about the ways in which people make reference and
build structure in language. She is committed to both research
and teaching and received a Teacher of the Year Award fromU F’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2009. Her training and experience in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science,
and neuroscience make her part of a new wave of researchers
approaching psycholinguistic research from multiple perspectives and methods.

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