Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez

Emerita Professor of Psychology

Psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology

Curriculum Vitae
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Education and Professional Positions

1974-1977 Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Psychophysiology and Perception Labs, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
1985-1986 Director of Psychophysiology Lab Assistants, Faculty of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
1980, BA, Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
1976-1986 Research Psychologist, Faculty of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
1988, Masters, Psychobiology, National Autonomous University of México.
1991, Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Brandeis University.
1991-1992, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University.
1995 Visiting Research Scientist. Cognitive Science Department, University of California, San Diego.
1996, 1997, Visiting Assistant Cognitive Scientist Project, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1992-1997, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Reed College.
2000 Visiting Research Scientist, Institute of Neurophysiology Celular, UNAM, Querétaro, México.
1997-2008 Associate Professor of Psychology, Reed College.
2008- present Professor of Psychology, Reed College.

Teaching

I teach various courses at the introductory and advanced levels focusing on the study of language. I cover a broad spectrum; language acquisition, psychological processes involved in the production and comprehension of language, brain and language relations, and the learning of language in special circumstances (e.g. bilingualism). I approach the study of language from a cognitive neuroscience perspective with the goal of training students' critical thinking skills in combination with the methods and techniques used in the field. My ultimate goal is to prepare students to develop and carry out their own research in the lab. (Follow links to search for more details.)

Psy 121 Introduction to Psychology
Psy 296 Psychology of language acquisition
Psy 336 Neuropsychology
Psy 393 Psycholinguistics
Psy 439 Psycholinguistic Research: Bilingualism

Research

In my research I specialize in the use of two time-sensitive techniques to study the mental architecture of language; the recording of event-related potentials and the recording of eye movements. Particular areas of interest are: the timing and interaction of various language processes, and the study of language processing in bilinguals. Recent research questions are: Do bilinguals activate both of their languages when using a single language? Do they get cognitive benefits from the particular linguistic demands they face? Do they have prompt and equal access to the meaning of words independently of the language in which the word was produced? What is the nature of the interaction between language and thought? In another line of research, I study possible links between language and perception (e.g. synesthesia, bistable figures and sentences).

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Selected Publications

( Reed student co-authors in bold )

Graulty, C., Papaioannou, O., Bauer, P., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018). Hearing Shapes: Event-related potentials reveal the time course of auditory-visual sensory substitution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30:4, 498-513.

Schelonka, K., Graulty, C., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2017). ERP signatures of conscious and unconscious word and letter perception in an inattentional blindness paradigm. Consciousness & Cognition, 54, 56-71.

Yiu, L. , Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015). Electrophysiological assessment of time of bilingual visual word recognition: Early access to language membership. Neuropsychologia, 75 , 349-367.

Ryskin, RA, Brown-Schmidt, S., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Yiu, LK ., & Nguyen, ET (2014). Visuospatial perspective-taking in conversation and the role of bilingual experience. Journal of Memory and Language, 74 , pp. 46-76.

Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Brick, C. Brehm, L ., Brown-Schmidt, S., Fischer, K ., & Wagner, K . (2010). Carpet or Cárcel: The effect of age of acquisition and language mode on bilingual lexical access. Language and Cognitive Processes , 25, 5, pp. 669 - 705.

Brown-Schmidt, S. , & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2004). Who do you love, your mother or your horse? An event-related brain potential analysis of tone processing in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33 , (2).

Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Hickok, G. (1996). Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism. Cognition, 59 , 23-59.