Email Address:
myates@southalabama.edu
Phone Number:
(251) 460-7872
Location:
UCOM 1127
Office Hours:
Tue 12:15-3:15pm
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Mark A. Yates, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics

Dr Yates will be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2019-2020 academic year. Apply here.

Research Interests

The relationship between written and spoken language

Ph.D., University of Kansas 2004

Cognitive Psychology
M.S., University of Louisiana 1997

Experimental Psychology
B.S., Louisiana State University 1995

Psychology

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.

Highlighted Research

Cortese, M. J., Yates, M., Schock, J., & Vilks, L. (in press). Examining word processing via a megastudy of conditional reading aloud. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Slattery, T. J., & Yates, M. (in press). Word skipping: Effects of word length, predictability, spelling, and reading skill. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Slattery, T. J., Yates, M., & Angele, B. (2016). Interword and interletter spacing effects during reading revisited: Interactions with word and font characteristics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22(4), 406–422.

Ploetz, D. M., & Yates, M. (2016). Age of acquisition and imageability: a cross-task comparison. Journal of Research in Reading, 39(1), 37–49.

Yates, M. (2013). How the clustering of phonological neighbors affects visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(5), 1649–1656.

Yates, M. (2012). The influence of semantic neighbours on visual word recognition. Journal of Research in Reading, 35, 215 - 226.

Yates, M. (2011). How similarity influences word recognition: The effect of neighbors. In J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke, & M. J. Williams (Eds.), The handbook of psycholinguistic & cognitive processes: Perspectives in communication disorders (pp. 273 - 289). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Yates, M. (2010). Investigating the importance of the least supported phoneme on visual word naming. Cognition, 115, 197-201.

Yates, M. (2009). Phonological neighborhood spread facilitates lexical decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1304-1314.

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.