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Publications
(including manuscripts under review)
* denotes mentored students
Higgins, M., Saunders, E., & Lieberman, A (under review). Looking for language in all the right places: Parent signing supports deaf children’s development of visual attention for language. Language Learning and Development.
Campbell, E., Kraus, K., Pontecorvo, E., Saunders, E.. & Lieberman, A. (in press) Language Acquisition and Language Access: What Research and Data Tell Us. In M. Hatrak (Ed.), Writing Appropriate IFSPs and IEPs for Deaf Children: Emphasizing Language Acquisition and Access First.
Saunders, E., Schotter, E., & Emmorey, K. (in press). Morphological processing in the parafovea during sentence reading for deaf and hearing readers. Applied Psycholinguistics.
Article | ASL Abstract
Sinclair, G, Cooley, F. G., Stringer, C., Saunders, E., Emmorey, K., & Schotter, E. (2025). The impact of an enhanced perceptual span on landing position: Evidence from hearing and deaf readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001391
Emmorey, K., Akers, E., Saunders, E., Bannazadeh, M.*, Droubi, E.*, Cooley, F., Schotter, E. (2025). Assessing the effects of sign language experience vs. deafness on the leftward reading span. Cognitive Science, 49(12), e70162. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70162
Cooley, F., Emmorey, K., Saunders, E., & Schotter, E. (2025). 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. (in press).
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001415
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001633
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.
Article | ASL Abstract
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).
https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241232407
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
International Congress of Infant Studies (2026)
Panama City, Panama
Predictors of gaze shifting and attention in young deaf signing children

Psychonomic Society (2024)
New York City, NY
Morphological processing in the parafovea for deaf and hearing readers

Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (2023)
San Sebastian, Spain
Activation of ASL signs during sentence reading for deaf readers

European Conference on Eye Movements (2024)
Maynooth, Ireland
Morphological processing in the parafovea for deaf and hearing readers

UC San Diego Department of Education Studies (2024)
San Diego, CA
Sentence processing and eye tracking (guest lecture)

Palomar College ASL Department
Vista, CA
Introduction to the SDSU Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (guest lecture)

Ongoing projects

Joint attention during book reading

Investigating the reading span for deaf and hearing readers

Morphological processing for deaf readers
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