Address:
Department of
Psychology
Kent Hall 315-C
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Email: jfolk@kent.edu
Work phone: (330) 672-4095
Fax: (330) 672-3786
Education and Training:
1997 Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina
1997-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns
Hopkins University
Research Interests: Reading and Writing, Cognitive
Neuropsychology, Eye Movements in Reading
My research interests focus on lexical processing and representation during
written language processing. I am interested in exploring how different
sources of word knowledge are represented and used during written language
processing and contextual effects on those processes. My laboratory
includes a dual-purkinje eye movement monitoring system to explore the
moment-to-moment cognitive processing that occurs during reading. In
addition, my research includes studies of neurologically impaired
individuals with acquired language impairments. Studying these individuals
provides the opportunity to learn about the ways in which cognitive
processing and representation can become impaired and to learn more about
the cognitive processes and representations involved in normal language
processing.
Some issues that I am currently investigating include questions about
phonological processing and representation in reading and spelling;
sentence context effects on word processing; the interaction between
lexical and sub-lexical processes in reading and spelling and the content
of those processes; and graphemic structure in spelling.
Recent Publications:
Folk, J.R. (1999). Phonological codes are used to access the lexicon during
silent reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, 25, 892-906.
Morris, R.K., & Folk, J.R. (1999). Lexical ambiguity resolution in
reading: interaction of semantic, syntactic, and phonological information.
In Kennedy, Pynte, Heller, & Radich (Eds.). Reading as a Perceptual
Process. Elsevier Press.
Morris, R.K. & Folk, J.R. (1998). Focus as a contextual priming
mechanism. Memory and Cognition, 26, 1313-1322.
Rapp, B., Folk, J, Boteler, E., & Skultety, K. (1998). Structure and
texture in graphemic representations: Evidence from dysgraphia. Brain and
Language, 65, 155-157 [abstract].
Folk, J.R., & Morris, R.K. (1995). The role of multiple lexical codes
in reading: Evidence from naming time, oral reading, and eye movements.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21,
1412-1429.