Phillip Hamrick
Department of Psychological Sciences
Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
Kent Hall
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Biography
Graduate Area:
Does Dr. Hamrick plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?
Research Interests
My research encompasses the domains of psycholinguistics and the psychology of learning and memory. Specifically, I research whether and how general learning and memory mechanisms underpin language learning, representation, and processing. Among these mechanisms, I focus on declarative and procedural memory, implicit learning, and associative/statistical learning. Within language, I have broad expertise, with interests ranging from semantic representation to child language to second language learning to Tourette syndrome and beyond.
Lab Site:
Memory and Language Laboratory
Courses Frequently Taught
- Quantitative Methods in Psychology II
Publications:
- Zhang, Y., Ridchenko, M., Hayashi, A., & Hamrick, P. (2021). Episodic memory also predicts higher proficiency second language lexical abilities. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 1356-1361.
- Murphy, J., Miller, R., & Hamrick, P. (2021). Contributions of declarative memory and prior knowledge to incidental L2 vocabulary learning. The Mental Lexicon, 16, 49-68.
- Hamrick, P., & Pandza, N. (2020). Contributions of semantic and contextual diversity to the word frequency effect in L2 lexical access. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(1), 25-34.
- Hamrick, P., Graff, C., & *Finch, B. (2019). Contributions of episodic memory to novel word learning. The Mental Lexicon, 14(3), 379-396.
- Hamrick, P., Lum, J. A. G., & Ullman, M. T. (2018). Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1487-1492.
- Hamrick, P., & Sachs, R. (2017). Establishing evidence of learning in experiments with artificial linguistic systems. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40, 153-169.
- *Ryan, K., Hamrick, P., Miller, R., & Was, C. (2017). Salience, cognitive effort, and word learning: Insights from pupillometry. In S. Gass, P. Spinner, & J. Behney (Eds). Saliency in second language acquisition. Routledge.
- Hamrick, P., & Ullman, M.T. (2017). A neurocognitive perspective on retrieval interference in L2 sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 687-688.
- Hamrick, P. (2015). Declarative and procedural memory abilities as individual differences in incidental language learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 44, 9-15.
- Hamrick, P. (2014). Recognition memory for novel syntactic structures. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 2-7.
Education
Georgetown University (2013)
Expertise
Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition
Declarative Memory
Procedural Memory
Implicit Learning
Computational Modeling and Text Mining
Language Acquisition
Declarative Memory
Procedural Memory
Implicit Learning
Computational Modeling and Text Mining