Mark Yates, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2004 - Cognitive Psychology
M.S., University of Louisiana, 1997 - Experimental Psychology
B.S., Louisiana State University, 1995 - Psychology

Office: LSCB 371
Phone: 251-460-7872
Email: myates@usouthal.edu

Discipline: Cognition
Others: Psycholinguistics

Research Interests

My research interests are in the area of cognitive psychology. My current research is concerned with understanding the relationship between written and spoken language. That is, how does the sound of a word influence how you read it, and how does the spelling of a word influence how you hear it. Please visit my website for more information on my research.

Selected Publications

Yates M. (in press). Phonological neighborhood spread facilitates lexical decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Yates M. (in press). How similarity influences word recognition: The effect of neighbors. In J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke, & M. J. Williams (Eds.), The handbook of psycholinguistics and language processing: Perspectives in communication disorders. Taylor & Francis/ Psychology Press.

Yates, M., Friend, J., & Ploetz, D. M. (2008). Phonological neighbors influence word naming through the least supported phoneme. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1599-1608.

Yates, M., Friend, J., & Ploetz, D. M. (2008). The effect of phonological neighborhood density on eye movements during reading. Cognition, 107, 685-692.

Yates, M. (2005). Phonological neighbors speed visual word processing: Evidence from multiple tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 1385-1397.

Yates, M., Locker, L., & Simpson, G. (2004). The influence of phonological neighborhood on visual word perception. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 452-457.

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