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DISSERTATION

Eyes on Morphology:

Investigating the role of morphological processing for deaf readers

Publications
(including manuscripts under review)

Saunders, E., Schotter, E., & Emmorey, K. (under review). Morphological processing in the parafovea during sentence reading for deaf and hearing readers. Applied Psycholinguistics.
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Sinclair, G, Cooley, F. G., Stringer, C., Saunders, E., Emmorey, K., & Schotter, E. (in press). The impact of an enhanced perceptual span on landing position: Evidence from hearing and deaf readers.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Emmorey, K., Akers, E., Saunders, E., Bannazadeh, M., Droubi, E., Cooley, F., Schotter, E.  (under review). Assessing the effects of sign language experience vs. deafness on the leftward reading span. Cognitive Science.

Cooley, F., Emmorey, K., Saunders, E., & Schotter, E. (in press). Presenting the Signers’ Eye-movements in English Reading (SEER) Corpus: An eye-tracking dataset of reading behaviors by deaf early signers and hearing non-signers. Behavior Research Methods.

Sehyr, Z., Fillet, L.,  Saunders, E., Billot-Vasquez, K., Emmorey, K. (under review).
Orthographic representations in fingerspelling. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Saunders, E., Helms, H., & Emmorey, K. (2025). Morphological awareness and reading skill for deaf and hearing adults. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
Article | ASL Abstract

Cooley, F., Emmorey, K., Saunders, E., Sinclair, G., Stringer, C., & Schotter, E. (2025)
Deaf readers' increased reliance on word length and predictability, but not frequency, to support reading efficiency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Schotter, E. R., Stringer, C., Saunders, E., Cooley, F. G., Sinclair, G., & Emmorey, K. (2024). The role of perceptual and word identification spans in reading efficiency: Evidence from hearing and deaf readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(10), 2359–2377. 

Saunders, E., Mirault, J., & Emmorey, K. (2024). Activation of ASL signs during sentence reading for deaf readers: evidence from eye-tracking. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-9.
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Stringer, C., Cooley, F., Saunders, E., Emmorey, K., & Schotter, E. R. (2024). Deaf readers use leftward information to read more efficiently: Evidence from eye tracking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). 

Saunders, E., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (2021). Comprehension benefits of visual-gestural iconicity and spatial referencing. Second Language Research, 39(2), 363-386.
Article | ASL Abstract

Quinto-Pozos, D., Muroski, K., & Saunders, E. (2019). Pronouns in ASL-English simultaneous interpretation. Journal of Interpretation, 27(1), 3.

Presentations and Guest Lectures

European Conference on Eye Movements (2024)

Maynooth, Ireland

Morphological processing in the parafovea for deaf and hearing readers

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UC San Diego Department of Education Studies (2024)

San Diego, CA

Sentence processing and eye tracking (guest lecture)

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Palomar College ASL Department

Vista, CA

Introduction to the SDSU Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (guest lecture)

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Psychonomic Society (2024)

New York City, NY

Morphological processing in the parafovea for deaf and hearing readers

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Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (2023)

San Sebastian, Spain

Activation of ASL signs during sentence reading for deaf readers

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Ongoing projects

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Joint attention during book reading

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Investigating the reading span for deaf and hearing readers

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Morphological processing for deaf readers

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