Dr. Jennifer Roche

Curriculum Vitae (2026)

Dr. Jennifer Roche is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor of speech pathology and audiology and learning sciences. Dr. Roche’s research interest focus on communication and learning in a social context, using eye-tracking, computer mouse-tracking, acoustic speech perception and production, and interactive dialogue methodology. She is currently the director of the MADI (miscommunication and dialogue interaction lab) and is currently accepting doctoral students.

• 2004       B.A., Department of Psychology, General Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 2007       M.A., Department of Psychological Sciences, Experimental Psychology, James Madison University
• 2011       Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, University of Memphis
• 2011-14 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester

Recent Publications

1. Wu, M. & Roche, J. M. (2025). Emotion, proficiency, and arousal: Exploring speech and physiological responses in Chinese ESL learners. Frontiers Human Neuroscience: Speech and Language. 
2. Rickert, E., Salvo-Boyd, H.D., Roche, J. M., & Arnold, H. (2024). Explicit and implicit cognitive processes of the public toward people who stutter. Fluency Disorders, 81, 1-15. 
3. Roche, J. M., Asaro, K., Morris, B. J., & Morgan, S.D. (2023). Gender stereotypes and social perception of vocal confidence is mitigated by salience of socio-indexical cues to gender. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. 
4. Roche, J. M., Morgan, S. D., & Fisk. S. (2022). Gender stereotypes drive perceptual differences of vocal confidence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(5), 3031-3042. 
5. Morris, B. J., Todaro, R., Arner, T., & Roche, J. M. (2022). How does the accuracy of children’s number representations influence the accuracy of their numerical predictions? Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.874230 
6. Roche, J. M., Hatten, Q., & Murray, G. (2021). Perception of multi-cue indexical speech leads to amplified stereotyping. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 4(5), 1-13. 
7. Murray, G., Willer, C. J., Arner, T., Roche, J. M., & Morris, B. J. (2021). Contextualized knowledge reduced misconceived health decisions about COVID-19. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 10(3), 381-391. 
8. McLean, M.°, Roche, J. M.°, Audet, L., Stribling, D., & Kaufman, R. (2021). Explicit and implicit cognitive processes associated with microaggression endorsement. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, 6(6), 1719-1728. 
9. Paxton, A., Roche, J. M., Ibarra, A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2021). Predictions of miscommunication in verbal communication during collaborative joint action. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64(2), 613-627. 

Teaching (Recent Courses) 

1. SPA 10002 (Introduction to Communication Disorders and Differences)
2. SPA 14500 (Introduction to Psycholinguistics)
3. SPA 44111 (Neural Processes)
4. SPA 44112 (Age Related Changes in Communication)
5. SPA 70703 (Speech Acoustics/Speech Perception)
6. SPA 70706 (A&P Underlying Neuro-otology)
7. SPA 6/70708 (Critical Analysis of Research)

KSU Study Abroad (Faculty Led & Florence Summer Institute)

1. SPA 4/5/74089 (Mind the Gap: Talking, Thinking, and the Space Between Us)