Tessa Warren

Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology

Affiliated Faculty, University of Pittsburgh Department of Linguistics

Senior Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Lab

http://www.pitt.edu/~tessa/

Education and Training

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

The general question that drives my research is how people understand language. I'm interested in characterizing the mental system that allows a reader or listener to read or hear a string of words and form an appropriate mental representation based on those words and a mental representation of the context. My work is informed by formal linguistics as well as cognitive psychology.

Recent Publications

Milburn, E., Dickey, M.W., Warren, T., & Hayes, R. (2021). Increased reliance on world knowledge during language comprehension in healthy aging: evidence from verb-argument prediction. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

Warren, T., & Dickey, M.W. (2021). The use of linguistic and world knowledge in language processing. Language and Linguistics Compass.

Dresang, H.C.*, Hula, W.D., Yeh, F-C., Warren, T., & Dickey, M.W. (2021). White matter neuroanatomical predictors of aphasic verb retrieval. Brain Connectivity.

Dresang, H.C.*, Warren, T., Hula, W.D. & Dickey, M.W. (2021). Rational adaptation in using conceptual versus lexical information in adults with aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology - Language Sciences: Rational Approaches in Language Science, 12, 1-32.

Warren, T., & Dickey, M.W. (2021). The use of linguistic and world knowledge in language processing. Language and Linguistics Compass.

Tessa's Google Scholar profile

News and Awards