Laura Carlson
Professor, Department of Psychology
Degrees
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Profile
Carlson has been at the University of Notre Dame since 1994, and is currently the Associate Dean for Professional Development in the Graduate School and a Professor in the Psychology Department. Her primary research interest is in spatial language and spatial cognition, in which she has employed empirical, computational, and psychophysiological measures to investigate the way in which the objects and their spatial relations are encoded, represented and described. Her work has appeared in top journals including Psychological Science, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and Journal of Memory and Language. She is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, past Associate Editor of Memory & Cognition, co-editor of the Oxford University Press volume Functional Features in Language and Space and is on the editorial boards at Perception & Psychophysics, and Visual Cognition. Her research has been funded by the NIH and NSF.Contact Information
119-D
Haggar Hall
631-6511
lcarlson@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~lcarlson
