Open gallery

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
- Biopsychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- NeuroCognition
- Human Memory
- Introductory Psychology
- Psychology of Reading
- Research Methods
Research Interests
-
Language: Role of linguistic factors (e.g., focus; syntactic prominence) in comprehension of sentences and discourses; Role of phonological information in reading; Reading impairment.
-
Memory: Memory for different levels of information (surface information, conceptual information) and memory for recently-viewed events (e.g., eyewitness memory)