Kay Livesay

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Kay Livesay
Associate Professor

Pioneer Hall 105

Professor Livesay specializes in cognitive psychology. Her primary areas of research involve language processing and meaning representation. She leads an active research program with a team of undergraduate students in the psychology department. Students interested in becoming a member of Dr. Livesay’s research team are invited to contact her through email.

Professor Livesay typically teaches PSYC 283 - Introduction to Cognition, PSYC 288 - Psychology of Language, PSYC 252 - Research Methods in Psychology and PSYC 389 - Cognitive Neuroscience.

Education

B.S. University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., University of California, Riverside
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Academic interests:

My primary areas of research involve language processing (lexical and sentential). I have an active research program with a team of undergraduate students. We (my undergraduates and I) recently presented new findings at WPA in Irvine. If you are interested in being a member of the team please contact me.

Publications:

Livesay, K. & Burgess, C. (2003). Mediated Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres, Brain & Cognition, 53, 283-286.
Burgess, C & Livesay, K. (1998). The effect of corpus size in predicting reaction time in a basic word recognition task: Moving on from Kucera and Francis. Behavior Research Methods, Instrument Computers, 30, 272-277.
Livesay, K, & Burgess, C. (1998). Mediated priming in high-dimensional semantic space: No effect of direct semantic relationships or co-occurrence. Brain & Cognition, 37, 102-105.
Burgess, C., Livesay, K. & Lund, K. (1998). Explorations in context space: Words, sentences, discourse. Discourse Processes, 25, 211-257.

Personal interests:

I like to cook (and eat), play soccer, hike, garden and read science fiction (not necessarily in that order).