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Aim�e M. Surprenant

Room Number: SN3072
Telephone: (709) 737-4786
Email: asurpren@mun.ca
Unit: Developmental/
Cognition

Research Interests

Aimee M. Surprenant


 

Aim�e M. Surprenant


 



 

My research interests main area of research explores the intersection of auditory perception and memory. This research program is inherently interdisciplinary and has led to collaborations with researchers in the areas of Linguistics, Audiology and Speech Sciences, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Surprenant has developed a number of lines of inquiry which focus on delineating the link between auditory perception and auditory memory.




Publications

Surprenant, A. M. (in press). Effects of noise on identification and serial recall of nonsense syllables in older and younger adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

Bireta, T. J., Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (in press).  The syllable based word length effect and stimulus set specificity. Psychological Bulletin & Review.

Farley, L. A., Neath, I., Allbritton, D. W., & Surprenant, A. M. (in press). Irrelevant speech effects and sequence learning. Memory & Cognition.

Hulme, C., Neath, I., Stuart, G., Shostak, L., Surprenant, A. M., & Brown, G. D. A. (in press). The distinctiveness of the word-length effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Surprenant, A. M., Kelley, M. R., Farley, L. A., & Neath, I. (2005).  Fill-in and infill errors in order memory. Memory, 13, 267-273.

Hulme, C., Surprenant, A. M, Bireta T. J., Stuart, G., & Neath, I. (2004). Abolishing the word-length effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 98�106.

Neath, I., Bireta, T. J., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). The time-based word length effect and stimulus set specificity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 10, 430-434.

Neath, I., Farley, L. A., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). Directly assessing the relationship between irrelevant speech and articulatory suppression. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56A, 1269-1278.

Hastings, A., Lee, H. H., Davies, P., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003).  Measurement of the attributes of complex tonal components commonly found in product sound. Noise Control Engineering Journal, 51, 195-212.

Surprenant, A. M. (2001). Distinctiveness and serial position effects in tonal sequences. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 737-745.

Surprenant, A. M., & Watson, C. S. (2001). Individual differences in the processing of speech and non-speech sounds by normal-hearing listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 2086-2095.

Surprenant, A. M., LeCompte, D. C., & Neath, I. (2000). Manipulations of irrelevant information: Suffix effects with articulatory suppression and irrelevant speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 53A, 325-348.

Surprenant, A. M. (1999).  Effects of noise on memory. International Journal of Psychology, 34, 328-333.

Surprenant, A. M., Neath, I., & LeCompte, D. C. (1999). Irrelevant speech, phonological similarity, and presentation modality. Memory, 7, 405-420.

Surprenant, A. M., Hura, S. L, Harper, M. P., & Jamieson, L. J., Long, G., Thede, S. M., Rout, A., Hsueh, T. H. Hockema, S. A., Johnson, M. T., Srinivaan, P. N., & White, C. M. (1999). Familiarity and Pronounciability of Words and Names. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 638-649.

Neath, I., Surprenant, A. M., & LeCompte, D. C. (1998). Irrelevant speech eliminates the word length effect. Memory & Cognition, 26, 343-354.

Surprenant, A. M., & Goldstein, L.  (1998). The perception of speech gestures.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 104, 518-529.

Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (1997). T. V. Moore's (1939) Cognitive Psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4, 342-349.

Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (1996). The relation between discriminability and memory for vowels, consonants, and silent-center vowels. Memory & Cognition, 24, 356-366.

Neath, I., Surprenant, A. M., & Crowder, R. G. (1993).  The context dependent stimulus suffix effect.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory and Cognition, 19, 698-703.

Surprenant, A. M., Pitt, M. A. & Crowder, R. G. (1993). Auditory recency in immediate memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46A, 193-223.

Books

Surprenant, A. M., Francis, G., & Neath, I. (2005). CogLab Reader. Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth.

Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). Human Memory, Second Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Roediger, H. L. III, Nairne, J. S., Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (Eds.) (2001). The nature of remembering: Essays in honor of Robert G. Crowder. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (in press).  Age-related differences in working memory.  In N. Osaka, R. Logie, and M. D�Esposito (Eds.), Working memory: Behavioural and neural correlates. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (in press). The 9 lives of short-term memory.  To appear in A. S. C. Thorn and M. Page (Eds.), Interactions between short-term and long-term memory in the verbal domain. Hove, UK:  Psychology Press.

Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (in press). Cognitive Aging.  In J. M. Wilmouth, and K. F. Ferraro, (Eds.), Gerontology: Perspectives and issues, 3rd Edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Surprenant, A. M., Bireta, T. J., & Farley, L. A. (in press). A brief history of memory and aging. In J. S. Nairne (Ed.), The foundations of remembering: Essays in honor of Henry L. Roediger, III. Hove, UK:  Psychology Press.

Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2005). Mechanisms of memory. In K. Lamberts & R. L. Goldstone (Eds.), Handbook of cognition, pp.221-238. London: Sage.

Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2001). The irrelevant sound effect is not always the same as the irrelevant speech effect. In H. L. Roediger III, J. S. Nairne, I. Neath, & A. M. Surprenant (Eds.), The nature of remembering: Essays in honor of Robert G. Crowder, pp. 247-265. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Crowder, R. G., & Surprenant, A. M. (2000). Sensory memory. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology, pp. 227-229. New York: APA/Oxford. Vol. 7.

Francis, G. F., Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2000). Java experiments: The cognitive psychology online laboratory. In M. H. Birnbaum (Ed.), Psychological experiments on the internet pp. 267-283.  New York:  Academic Press.

Crowder, R. G.,  &  Surprenant, A. M. (1995). On the linguistic module in auditory memory. In B. de Gelder and J. Morais (Eds.), Speech and reading, pp. 49-64. East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Snodgrass, J. G., & Surprenant, A. M. (1989). Effect of retention interval on implicit and explicit memory for pictures. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 395 398.




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