Stacy Birch, Ph.D

Associate Professor
(585) 395-2484
sbirch@brockport.edu
Office: Holmes Hall 130

Education

  • PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - 1993
  • M.A., Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - 1990
  • B.A. (summa cum laude) Honors Psychology and English, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston - 1987

Areas of Specialty

Courses

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Biopsychology
  • Research Methods
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology of Language

Research Interests

  • Memory: Memory for recently-viewed faces or events (e.g., eyewitness memory); memory for different types of information (e.g., surface, conceptual)

  • Language: Role of linguistic factors (e.g., focus; syntactic prominence) in comprehension of sentences and discourses; Role of phonological information in reading; Reading impairment.