| Title: |
Assistant Professor Director, Language Research Laboratory |
| Dept: | Psychology |
| Office: | CB 175 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3750, lab: 687-3834 |
| Fax: | 216-687-9294 |
| Email: | C.MCLENNAN@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://web.mac.com/languageresearch |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. CB 175, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2003
B.A., Spanish and Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 1999 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Dr. McLennan received his BA and Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (UB). He spent an additional three years at UB on a post-doc position, gaining additional research experience. His research program, funded by the National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH: NIDCD), explores the representations and processes involved in the perception of spoken language.
His interest in language dates back to (at least) high school, when he first became enamored with the Spanish language. After majoring in Spanish in high school and college (he received a BA with a double major in Spanish and Psychology), he became interested in languages more generally, and decided to pursue graduate work in cognitive psychology and to work with Professor Luce in the Language Perception Laboratory. He now primarily conducts basic research designed to investigate how it is that we are able to understand words spoken by different talkers (e.g., how do you know that the word "computer" is the same word when it is spoken by different talkers, even talkers with very different speaking styles?). However, he is also involved in a number of other projects, including work examining potential hemispheric differences in language perception with his colleague in Spain, Dr. Gonzalez, and another large-scale, multi-site project investigating auditory confusions of prescription drug names (with the ultimate goal of reducing such confusions, particularly the more serious confusions that can be harmful, and even fatal). Dr. McLennan is delighted to be a teacher and active researcher in the Psychology Department and the College of Science at Cleveland State University. For more information, please visit the Language Research Laboratory's web page: http://web.mac.com/languageresearch | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| -Graduate Faculty Travel Award (2007)
College of Graduate Studies at Cleveland State University -Teaching Enhancement Grant Award (2006) Center for Teaching Excellence at Cleveland State University -United University Professions Individual Development Award (2005) -Robert W. Rice Memorial Research Award Recipient (2003) -B.A. Cum Laude (1999) -High Honors in Psychology, Honors Thesis (1999) -Spanish National Honor Society (1999) -Graduating Honors in Psychology (1999) -Graduating Honors in Spanish (1999) | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Basic and Applied Research in Spoken Language Perception and Memory
Age-related Differences in Language Perception Bilingual Lexical Representation and Processing Relationship between Language Perception and Production Cognition and Perception Work in the Language Research Laboratory is aimed at understanding the processes and representations involved in humans' remarkable capacity to recognize spoken language so rapidly and accurately. In particular, we are interested in the processes and representations that support spoken word recognition. Our work on processing issues focuses primarily on the nature of lexical activation and competition. Our work on representational issues examines the nature of sound-based representations in the mental lexicon, in particular their abstractness and specificity. See: "Publications" button, above For more information, please visit the Language Research Laboratory's web page: http://web.mac.com/languageresearch | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Teaching interests include: Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, Lexical Representation and Processing, Speech Perception, Psycholinguistics, Bilingual Lexical Representation and Processing, Sensation and Perception
See: "Courses Taught" button, above See also: http://web.mac.com/languageresearch/iWeb/LRL/Teaching | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
American Psychological Association (APA) Association for Psychological Science (APS; Formerly American Psychological Society) Psychonomic Society | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| Cleveland State University
Assistant Professor Psychology Department 2006 - present University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Research Scientist Language Perception Laboratory Psychology Department 2003 - 2006 Drug Name Confusion Project (Supported by U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5 R01 HS011609, Bruce Lambert, PI) Research Scientist 2005 - present University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Graduate Research Assistant Language Perception Laboratory Psychology Department 1999 - 2003 | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Research Participation Administrator:
-Psychology Department, Cleveland State University (Fall, 2006 - present) Laboratory Director: -Language Research Laboratory (Fall, 2006 - present) Committee Membership: -Psychology Department, Cleveland State University -Adult Development and Aging Program Committee (ADAPC) (Fall, 2006 - present) -Experimental Research Committee (ERC) (Fall, 2006 - present) -Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC) (Fall, 2006 - present) -College of Science, Cleveland State University -Gerontology Certificate Advisory Committee (Fall, 2006) | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| Ad hoc reviewer:
-Brain and Language -Cognition -Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance -Journal of Memory and Language -Journal of Phonetics -Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research -The Linguistic Review -Memory and Cognition -Perception and Psychophysics -Psychonomic Bulletin and Review -Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psycholgy -Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences -Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics Reviewer: -National Science Foundation -Linguistics Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (2005) -Linguistics Program* - Research Grant (2006) *(Co-reviewed by the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program) Judge: -Acoustical Society of America -Best Student Poster in Speech Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2005) | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Time course of variability in spoken word recognition , 07/01/05 06/01/08. Direct costs: $150,000.00. Principal Investigator.
Cleveland State University, Provosts Initiative for the Involvement of Undergraduate Students in Research Activities, Representations and Processes Involved in the Perception of Spoken Language , Summer, 2007. Total Award: $2,305.00. Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health Directors New Innovator Award Program, Examining Variability Effects In Spoken Word Recognition In and Out of the Lab , Direct costs: $1,500,000.00. Principal Investigator. Proposal not selected for funding. United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Auditory perception of drug names: Neighborhood effects , 10/01/07 09/30/08. Total cost of subcontract: $12,831.00. Principal Investigator on the subcontract, and listed under key personnel on the main grant, which was awarded to the University of Illinois at Chicago (Principal Investigator: Bruce L. Lambert). | ||