Phone: (512) 245-4384               Email: ktooley@txstate.edu

General Info

I am a cognitive psychologist whose research specialty is in language processing. More specifically, my research is centered on investigating how language users represent, learn, and use abstract knowledge (such as grammatical rules and prosodic information) to understand and/or produce language. I am also interested in how individual differences among factors such as working memory and print exposure affect language processing.

Education

2009 Ph.D. University of California, Davis (Psychology)

2007 M.A. University of California, Davis (Psychology)

2004 B.S. Colorado State University (Psychology)

Publications

Tooley, K.M. (2020). Contrasting mechanistic accounts of the lexical boost. Memory & Cognition, 48, 815-838. (IF = 1.95). DOI: 10.3758/s13421-020-01019-3

Tooley, K.M., Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2019). Lexically-mediated syntactic priming effects in comprehension: Sources of facilitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(9), 2176-2196. (IF = 2.19).

Tooley, K.M., Konopka, A.E., & Watson, D.G. (2018). Assessing priming for prosodic representations: Speaking rate, intonational phrase boundaries, and pitch accenting. Memory & Cognition, 46(4) 625-641. (IF = 1.950).

Tooley, K.M. & Traxler, M.J. (2018).  Implicit learning of structure occurs in parallel with lexically-mediated syntactic priming effects in sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 59-76. (IF = 3.858).

Tooley, K.M., & Bock, J.K. (2014). On the equivalence of structural priming in language production and comprehension. Cognition, 132, 101-136. (IF = 3.634)

Traxler, M.J., Tooley, K.M., & Pickering, M.J. (2014). Syntactic priming during sentence comprehension: Evidence for the lexical boost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(4), 905-918. (IF = 2.918)

Tooley, K.M., Konopka, A.E., & Watson, D.G. (2014). Can prosodic structure be primed (like syntactic structure)? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(2), 348-363. (IF = 2.918)

Tooley, K.M., Swaab, T.Y., Boudewyn, M., Zirnstein, M., & Traxler, M.J. (2014). Evidence for priming across intervening sentences during on-line sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(3), 289-311. (IF = 1.93)

 Traxler, M.J., Long, D.L., Johns, C.L., Tooley, K.M., Zirnstein, M., & Jonathan, E. (2012). Modeling individual differences in eye-movements during reading: Working memory and speed-of-processing effects. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5(1):5, 1-16.  (IF = 1.295)

Tooley, K.M. & Traxler, M.J. (2010). Syntactic priming effects in comprehension: A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4(10), 925-937.

Tooley, K.M., Traxler, M.J., & Swaab, T.Y. (2009).  Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of syntactic priming in sentence comprehension.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(1), 19-45. (IF = 3.344)

Johns, C.L., Tooley, K.M., & Traxler, M.J. (2009). Discourse impairment following right hemisphere brain damage:  A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.

Traxler, M.J., & Tooley, K.M. (2008).  Priming in sentence comprehension:  Strategic or syntactic?  Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 609-645. (IF = 1.603)

Traxler, M.J., & Tooley, K.M. (2007).  Lexical mediation and context effects in parsing.  Brain Research, Special Issue: Mysteries of meaning, 1146, 59-74. (current IF = 2.828)