Craig Chambers
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Coordinator, Human Communication and Technology Specialist Program (CCIT)
office: CCT 4061
phone: 905-569-4279
email: craig.chambers[at]utoronto[dot]ca
Language and Action Laboratory Website
Human Communication Group Website
Area of Research
Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition
Profile
When people speak, they strike a balance between information conveyed with language and information conveyed in other ways, e.g., through gestures, intonation, and the environment where conversation is taking place. Listeners, in turn, must draw on all these information sources to understand what the speaker means. The goal of research in my laboratory is to understand the mental components that underlie this comprehension process. Recently, we have been investigating how the real-time understanding of spoken language is influenced by aspects of action planning. This research uses a technique in which eye movements are recorded as listeners follow instructions to manipulate objects in a visual workspace. [more]
Courses Taught
CCT316 Human Communication and Advertising
PSY315 Language Acquisition
PSY474 Special Topics in Human Communication
PSY5220 (Graduate) Advanced Topics in Cognition: Language
