Principal Investigator, Director
Kiel Christianson, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Educational Psychology
My research is influenced and informed by linguistic theory, as well as by cognitive psychology. My goal is to make deeper, broader connections between linguistics and various sub-fields of cognitive science. Overarching themes in my present work are (mis)interpretation in sentence processing, morphological processing during reading, and crosslinguistic research. At present I am focusing on rereading behaviors (i.e., measures related to rereading) in order to determine what, if any, relation they have to post-interpretive measures of comprehension (e.g., accuracy in responses to comprehension questions). A large proportion of my work connects to Good Enough Language Processing, a theory developed over the past 20 years with several colleagues. One recent expansion of this work is auditory perceptual simulation (APS), which describes readers’ consciously imagining a voice in their heads while reading. (Read more about APS at https://distributedmuseum.illinois.edu/exhibit/auditory-perceptual-simulation/).
Former Graduate Students
Heeyoun Cho (Full-time Lecturer, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
Jack Dempsey (Director of Research, Cascade Reading)
Sarah-Elizabeth Deshaies
Maria Goldshtein (Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Arizona State University)
Erika Hussey (Cognitive Science Team at US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center (NSRDEC)
Ji Hyon Kim (Associate Professor and Chair, School of English for Translation and Interpretation, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea)
Sun-A Kim (Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Jung Hyun Lim ()
Kent Lee (Associate Professor, Center for Teaching and Learning, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea)
Steven Luke (Professor, Psychology Department, Brigham Young University)
Heather Mauch (Technical Writer, Livermore Labs)
Jinhee Choo
Cassie Palmer (Counselor, Veterans’ Administration)
Jeong-Ah Shin (Professor, Dongkuk University, Seoul, South Korea)
Kacey Wochna (Lecturer, University of Michigan)
Anastasia Stoops (Post-Doc, Department of Psychology and NCSA, University of Illinois)
Anna Tsiola (Research Scientist, Meta)
Nikos Vergis ()
Peiyun Zhou (Research Scientist, Alphabet)
Former Assistants
Michael Blasingame, Ellie Brindise, Hye Yoon Choi, Jules Dubin, Kyle Hartzell, Eric Juul, Mary Keutemeyer, Rachel Leddy, Austin Maske, Hye-min Mia Lee, Jooyun Lee, Yojin Park, Adina Raizen, Laeh Ragans, Aubrey Sumaydeng, Joy Shapley, Allie Stanko, Heather, Sulikowski, Kate Tyndall, Youjia Wang, Zongyuan Wang, Cassandra Phelps, Shaolingyun Guo, Mary Fran Donovan, Yilan Liu, Mien-Jen Wu