Phillip Hamrick

Graduate Area: 

• Psychological Science - Cognitive

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. Broadly, I research whether and how general learning and memory mechanisms underpin various aspects of language, especially second language acquisition and bilingualism. I focus broadly on the roles of declarative and procedural memory as well as implicit/explicit learning in language, but I'm most interested in those aspects of language that are subserved by declarative memory and its subsystems (episodic and semantic memory). 

Lab Site:

Memory and Language Laboratory

Courses Frequently Taught

• Quantitative Methods in Psychology II
• Advanced Quantitative Analysis in R
• Cognitive Psychology

Publications:

• Pili-Moss, D., Wendebourg, K., Schmidt, T., Meurers, D., & Hamrick, P. (2025). Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict the outcomes of L2 digital practice and classroom-based tasks in adolescents. System. (IF = 4.900)
• Hamrick, P., *Zhang, Y., & Was, C.A. (2024). Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities? Studies in Second Language Acquisition. (IF = 5.100)
• Hamrick, P., *Byrnes, D., & Was, C.A. (2023). Implicit learning of melodic structure: A role for pitch? Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain. (IF = 1.300)
• *Burke, E., Gunstad, J., *Pavlenko, O., & Hamrick, P. (2023). Distinguishable features of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer’s disease and healthy controls. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. (IF = 2.102)
• Morgan-Short, K., Hamrick, P., & Ullman, M.T. (2022). Declarative and procedural memory as predictors of second language development. Routledge handbook of SLA and individual differences.
• *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. (IF = 2.360)
• *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. (IF = 0.795)
• 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. (IF = 0.881)
• Sachs, R., Hamrick, P., *McCormick, T., & Leow, R. (2020). Improving the validity of subjective measures of awareness: A focus on veridicality and reactivity. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. (IF = 4.730)
• Hamrick, P., Graff, C., & *Finch, B. (2019). Contributions of episodic memory to novel word learning. The Mental Lexicon, 14(3), 379-396. (IF = 0.795)
• 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. (IF = 12.779)
• Hamrick, P., & Sachs, R. (2017). Establishing evidence of learning in experiments with artificial linguistic systems. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40, 153-169. (IF = 4.730)
• Hamrick, P., & Ullman, M.T. (2017). A neurocognitive perspective on retrieval interference in L2 sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 687-688. (IF = 4.763)
• Hamrick, P. (2015). Declarative and procedural memory abilities as individual differences in incidental language learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 44, 9-15. (IF = 3.897)
• Rebuschat, P., Hamrick, P., Sachs, R., *Riestenberg, K., & Ziegler, N. (2015). Triangulating measures of awareness: A contribution to the debate on learning without awareness. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 299-334. (IF = 4.730)
• Hamrick, P. (2014). Recognition memory for novel syntactic structures. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 2-7. (IF = 0.881)
• Hamrick, P. (2014). A role for chunk formation in statistical learning of second language syntax. Language Learning, 64, 247-278. (IF = 5.240)
• Hamrick, P., & Rebuschat, P. (2012). How implicit is statistical learning? In P. Rebuschat & J. Williams (Eds.), Statistical learning and language acquisition. (pp. 365-382). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.