Katherine Mathis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Spring 2012

  • Research Design in Psychology (PSYC 251)
  • The Psychology of Language (PSYC 317)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Psychology (PSYC 402)
Phone 725-3637
Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department Psychology
Work Location 217 Kanbar Hall
E-Mail kmathis@bowdoin.edu
K. Mathis

Education

B.A. Psychology, Siena College, 1992
M.A. Cognitive Psychology, University at Albany, SUNY, 1995
Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, University at Albany, SUNY, 1998

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Research Interests

Prof. Mathis has conducted research in a number of areas of cognitive psychology, including the conceptual and lexical mental representations of novice and expert bilinguals, the effects of a visual scene context on the recognition of individual objects, the visual perception of objects under masked conditions, automaticity of orthographic and phonological processing used during reading, and how magazine advertisements implicitly increase positive attitudes towards the products depicted.

Selected Publications

Kahan, T. A., Hengen, K. B., & Mathis, K. M. (2011). An examination of orthographic and phonological processing using the task-choice procedure. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 171-190.

Kahan, T. A., & Mathis, K. M. (2007). Searching under cups for clues about memory: A classroom demonstration. Teaching of Psychology, 34, 124-128.

Kahan, T. A., & Mathis, K. M. (2002).  Gestalt grouping and common onset masking. Perception and Psychophysics, 64, 1248-1259.

Mathis, K. M.  (2002).Semantic interference from objects both in and out of a scene context.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 171–182.

Neill, W. T., & Mathis, K. M.  (1998).  Transfer-inappropriate processing:  Negative priming and related phenomena. In D. L. Medin (Ed.) Psychology of Learning and Motivation Vol. 38, pp. 1-40.  San Diego: Academic Press.

Altarriba, J., & Mathis, K. M. (1997).  Conceptual and lexical development in second language acquisition.  Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 550-568.