Scott Fraundorf - Curriculum Vitae

Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (in press). The effects of age on the strategic use of pitch accents in memory for discourse: A processing-resource account. Psychology and Aging. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2011). The disfluent discourse: Effects of filled pauses on recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 161-175. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010). Recognition memory reveals just how contrastive contrastive accenting really is. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 367-386. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2008). Dimensions of variation in disfluency production in discourse. In J. Ginzburg, P. Healey, & Y. Sato (Eds.), Proceedings of LONDIAL 2008, the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pp. 131-138. London: King's College London.
Sheese, B. E., Rothbart, M. K., Posner, M. I., White, L. K., & Fraundorf, S. H. (2008). Precursors of executive attention and self-regulation in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 31, 501-510.

Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (under review). (Some) prominence predicts recall: Implications for theories of prosody and repetition.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (under review). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Psycholinguistic dimensions of variation in disfluency production.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (under review). Slow down!: Increased reading time of words with font emphasis predicts beneficial contrast effects in memory.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Benjamin, A. S. (in preparation). Keeping up with the Joneses: Effects of others' knowledge states on metacognitive control of recall.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Benjamin, A. S. (in preparation). Knowing the crowd within: Multiple estimations reveal contributions of theory and experience to metacognitive judgments.
Hourihan, K. L., Fraundorf, S. H., & Benjamin, A. S. (in preparation). Same faces, different labels: Generating the cross-race effect in face memory with social category information alone.
Fraundorf, S. H., Lee, E.-K., & Watson, D. G. (in preparation). Contributions of language experience to individual differences in syntactic processing: Evidence from multi-level models.

Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2012, March). The accent by the adjunct: Pitch accenting interacts with argument structure and previous reference in online reference resolution. Poster to be presented at CUNY 2012: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Fraundorf, S. H., Lee, E.-K., & Watson, D. G. (2012, March). Language experience accounts for individual differences in syntactic processing: Evidence from multi-level modeling. Poster to be presented at CUNY 2012: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Benjamin, A. S. (2011, November). When two memories are better than one: Effects of others' knowledge states on metacognitive control of recall. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA, and at Education for a Lifetime: Minds, Brains, and New Literacies, Urbana, IL. [ PDF ]
Hourihan, K. L., Fraundorf, S. H., & Benjamin, A. S. (2011, November). Same faces, different labels: Generating the cross-race effect in face memory with social category information. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2011, March). Are older adults less strategic in discourse processing?: Evidence from pitch accents. Poster presented at CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA and at Education for a Lifetime: Minds, Brains, and New Literacies, Urbana, IL. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2010, September). Who cares about prosody?: Predicting individual differences in sensitivity to pitch accent in online reference resolution. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, York, England. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2010, September). The disfluent discourse: Effects of filled pauses on recall. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, York, England. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010, March). Working memory span modulates effect of pitch accenting on discourse memory. Poster presented at CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010, March). Recall predicted by reduction in intensity but not duration: Implications for theories of prominence. Poster presented at CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2009, March). Is contrastive accenting really CONTRASTIVE?: Effects of contrastive accenting on processing in a discourse. Poster presented at CUNY 2009: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, November). Effects of prosodic stress on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Sheese, B. E., White, L. K., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2008, May). Dissociable effects of attention and parent-child interaction on language acquisition. Poster presented at the 2008 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, April). Effect of pitch accents on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, Ithaca, NY.
Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2008, March). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, March). Effect of pitch accents on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
Fraundorf, S. H., Sheese, B. E., White, L. K., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2007, May). Brain derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphism associated with language acquisition. Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. [ PDF ]
Sheese, B. E., Fraundorf, S. H., White, L. K., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2007, April). Language development and executive attention in infancy. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Sheese, B. E., Rothbart, M. K., White, L., Fraundorf, S., & Posner, M. I. (2007, April). The origin of executive attention during infant development. American Psychological Association Symposium, New Orleans, LA.
Sheese, B. E., Rothbart, M. K., White, L. K., Fraundorf, S. H., & Posner, M. I. (2006, August). Executive attention, emotion, and emotion regulation in infancy. Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Research in Emotions, Atlanta, GA.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2005, May). Betrayal trauma and attention: Emotional processing systems affect response to trauma related information. Poster presented at the Fifth Annual Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Stanford, CA.

Fraundorf, S. H. (2012, February). Knowing the crowd within: Multiple estimations reveal contributions of theory and experience to metacognitive judgments. Cognitive psychology talk series, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2012, January). Modeling comprehension of text: The roles of contrast and online processing. Remote talk for the School of Psychology, University of Kent.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2011, March). Keeping up with the Joneses: Effects of others' knowledge states on metacognitive control of recall. Cognitive psychology talk series, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2009, December). What happened (and what didn't): Effects of pitch accenting on memory for discourse. Cognitive psychology talk series, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2009, March). Are contrastive accents contrastive?: Effects of pitch accenting on memory for discourse. Language processing talk series, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2008, February). Through thee, uh, looking glass: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Language processing talk series, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fraundorf, S. H. (2007, August). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Cognitive psychology talk series, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Some of my research has received coverage in the media. Below is a partial listing of where it has appeared.

in progress	Ph.D. in cognitive psychology (expected 2012) Minor in quantitative psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009	M.A. in cognitive psychology Thesis title: "Recognition memory reveals just how contrastive contrastive accenting really is" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2006	B.A. in psychology, summa cum laude, departmental honors Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon

2006 - present	Research assistant (advisers: Duane Watson and Aaron Benjamin) Prosody, disfluency, language and memory across the lifespan, metamemory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2007	Consultant (advisers: Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart) Development of executive attention, language acquisition University of Oregon
2005 - 2006	Research coordinator (advisers: Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart) Development of executive attention, language acquisition University of Oregon
2004 - 2005	Research assistant (advisers: Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart) Development of executive attention University of Oregon

Research (broad)	Psycholinguistics, memory, cognitive aging, metacognition, statistical modeling, cognitive development, attention, decision making
Research (specific)	Prosody, individual differences in language comprehension, disfluency, language and memory across the lifespan, metamemory, hierarchical linear models, executive attention, language acquisition, working memory, decision making
Teaching	Psycholinguistics, learning and memory, cognition, cognitive aging, cognitive development, attention, language acquisition, introductory statistics, graduate statistics, introductory psychology, research programming

2011 - present	Traineeship in National Institutes of Health-funded Language Processing Training Program University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2007 - 2011	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2011	Graduate College Travel Award Competitive grant awarded at the college level to fund conference travel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2009	List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students Awarded to campus instructors rated at least 4.4 out of 5.0 on student evaluations "Outstanding" rating (top 10% of student evaluations on campus) For course "Introduction to Psychology" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2009	List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students For course "Introduction to Psychology" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2006 - 2007	Illinois Distinguished Fellowship Full three-year fellowship awarded university-wide to "exceptional" graduate students University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Declined 2008 - 2010
2005	Alice C. Thompson award for best undergraduate research in psychology University of Oregon
2001 - 2005	Undergraduate honors, University of Oregon Selected for membership in Psi Chi Dean's list (8 terms)

2011	Program committee, Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, Montréal, QC
2010 - present	Ad hoc reviewer CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Journal of Memory and Language Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2010 - 2011	Organizer, University of Illinois reading group on multilevel models Researched, lectured, and led discussion on multilevel models and signal detection theory for graduate students and faculty from multiple departments
2009 - present	Programmer, Cognitive Toolbox Created MATLAB toolbox used by four labs Trained new graduate students and post-doctorate researchers on basic and applied programming skills
2004 - 2006	Undergraduate service Webmaster, Psi Chi at University of Oregon Student guide, University of Oregon Duck Days (student recruitment)

Fall 2011	Invited guest lecturer, "Basic Multilevel Modeling" Instructor: Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Fall 2010	Invited guest lecturer, "Language: A User's Guide" Instructor: Duane Watson
Spring 2009	Recipient, Graduate Teaching Certificate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Awarded to graduate instructors who achieve high student ratings and attend workshops on pedagogy
Spring 2009	Primary instructor, "Introduction to Psychology" List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students "Outstanding" rating (top 10% of student evaluations on campus) Course director: Sandra Goss Lucas
Fall 2008	Primary instructor, "Introduction to Psychology" List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students Course director: Sandra Goss Lucas
Fall 2007	Invited guest lecturer, "Language Comprehension" Instructor: Duane Watson

2010	Career adviser, Champaign School District Education to Careers Program Supervised a high school student in conducting a research project in psychology Led discussions on psychology research & careers
2009	Advised 4 honors research projects in introductory psychology
2005 - present	Supervised approximately 30 undergraduate research assistants Trained research assistants on data collection and data coding procedures Organized and led discussion group meetings for research assistants

2010 - present	Student member, Cognitive Science Society
2008 - present	Student affiliate, Association for Psychological Science

Computer	MATLAB (6 years), Psychophysics Toolbox (6 years), R Project for Statistical Computing (5 years), Praat (5 years), EyeLink (3 years), Amazon Mechanical Turk (1 year)
Languages	English (native), Japanese (beginning proficiency)

	Dr. Duane G. Watson Associate Professor of Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Dr. Aaron S. Benjamin Associate Professor of Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Dr. Michael I. Posner Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology University of Oregon

SCOTT H. FRAUNDORF