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Dr. M^cLennan received his B.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University at Buffalo (UB). He then spent three more years at UB on a post-doc position, gaining additional research experience.

Dr. M^cLennan's research program, which has received funding from 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 B.A. 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 Dr. Luce in the Language Perception Laboratory.

Dr. M^cLennan began his career at Cleveland State University in August 2006. In addition to being an active researcher, Dr. M^cLennan has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in cognitive psychology and related areas (see "Teaching" for more information), he has served or is currently serving as a core member of the Undergraduate Program Committee, the Psychological Science Program M.A. Committee, the Adult Development and Aging Ph.D. Program Committee, as previous Director of the Honors Program in Psychology, and as a Member of several other committees at the Department, College, and University levels, in addition to national and international service to the profession.  

Dr. M^cLennan has served or is currently serving as the primary mentor and advisor to several students, including supervising undergraduate honors theses, M.A. theses, and doctoral dissertations. He has published his work in top-tier professional journals, he was the recipient of the 2016 Department of Psychology Outstanding Research Award, he was the recipient of the 2013 College of Sciences and Health Professions Jearl D. Walker Outstanding Teacher Award, he has received a Merit Award (five times), has served as a Distinguished Educator for Turning Technologies, and more.

Dr. M^cLennan currently serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. He previously served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology and as the Associate Vice President for Research in the Office of Research.

Drs. M^cLennan and Incera developed the Psychology of Language Video series - check it out!

https://artsandsciences.csuohio.edu/languagelab/psychology-language-video-series

https://linktr.ee/conormclennan Dr. McLennan is a cognitive psychologist who directs the Language Research Laboratory. His research interests include language perception, bilingualism, cognitive aging, relationships between music, language, and cognition, and other topics in perception, language, and cognition. The goals of his research program include understanding how various populations of listeners represent and process spoken language, understanding the roles of bilingualism and musical expertise on cognitive processes such as inhibition, and considering how language research can be applied in interesting ways to address practical problems in other areas. Dr. McLennan's research program has received funding from the National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH: NIDCD), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and CSU. Dr. McLennan's main area of research is aimed at understanding the processes and representations involved in listeners' impressive ability to recognize spoken language rapidly and accurately, and this work takes place in the Language Research Laboratory at CSU. The research on processing issues focuses primarily on the nature of lexical activation and competition, and the work on representational issues examines the nature of sound-based representations in the mental lexicon, in particular their abstractness and specificity.

Dr. McLennan has enjoyed teaching a variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has taught courses in the Psychological Science specialization of the M.A. program in Psychology, and in the Adult Development and Aging Ph.D. program. Course topics include Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Research and Thesis, and Cognitive Psychology of Aging. He has also taught undergraduate courses in Memory and Cognition, Behavioral Science Statistics, and Special Topics in Psychology, such as the Psychology of Magic and Illusions, and the Psychology of Language. In addition to teaching at Cleveland State University (CSU), including courses at Lorain County Community Collage as part of their partnership with CSU, Dr. McLennan has taught courses for the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, in Singapore during the Summers of 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.