Current Members

Jennifer M. Martin, ABD

Jenny is a senior member of the Cognition and Language Laboratory. She is working on several projects, including work on hemispheric effects in processing and memory for different word types, attentional processes related to emotion word processing, metacognition, attentional blink, and strategies in second language learning. Jenny has published a recent book chapter written with her advisor, Dr. Jeanette Altarriba, which appears in Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research, as well as articles appearing in Language and Speech and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. She has presented original research at a variety of conferences, including the International Symposium on Bilingualism, many of the annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society, and the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. She is generally interested in emotion and bilingualism and their effects on both language and other cognitive processes, such as attention, memory, executive control, as well as their educational applications. Jenny is currently working as a visiting professor at Indiana University Bloomington. 

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Email: jmartin8@albany.edu

Mary C. Avery
(Lab Liaison)

Mary is a fifth-year graduate student in the Cognition and Language Laboratory and is currently interested in the survival processing effect as it relates to individual differences. Her research also focuses on creativity and divergent thinking, discrete emotion word processing, and the influence that emotion has on color perception. In more applied settings, Mary has contributed to research on health disparities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) individuals. As a whole, Mary is interested in how aspects of our cognition may be adaptive, and what this means for memory, perception, and the complex functioning that we enjoy today.

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Email: mavery@albany.edu

Dailyn Clark

Dailyn is a second-year doctoral student in the Cognition and Language Laboratory. Currently, her research interests include the overall function of memory and how environmental influences can influence or alter memory. Specifically, her interests focus on creation and decay of memory and the biological components that accompany memory acquisition and retention.

Sarah Jones

Sarah is a first-year doctoral student in the Cognition and Language Laboratory and is currently interested in language acquisition, survival processing, and word type. Specifically, how survival processing and language acquisition allows for the retention and better performance. Her research also focuses recall and word type effects on intentional/incidental learning strategies. Several of her projects have been presented in conferences, including Association of PsychologicalScience and Psychonomic Society. Sarah has also co-authored entries covering topics such as arousal, gossip and indirect reciprocity, and various mate poaching topics in peer-reviewed encyclopedias. In whole, Sarah is interested in how we, as humans, process words and how those processes differ among language acquisition and individual differences.

Email: sjones23@albany.edu