Kay Livesay

Kay Livesay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Linfield University, teaching core courses including PSYC 283 (Introduction to Cognition), PSYC 288 (Psychology of Language), PSYC 252 (Research Methods), and PSYC 389 (Cognitive Neuroscience).

Her educational credentials include a B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Riverside.

Research focuses on cognitive psychology with specialized expertise in lexical/sentential language processing and meaning representation. Her experimental work combines behavioral methods with computational modeling to investigate semantic networks, priming effects, and context-space dynamics in language comprehension.

Publications from 1998-2003 reveal consistent emphasis on mediated priming mechanisms, corpus-based word recognition, and multi-level discourse analysis, demonstrating interdisciplinary integration of neuroscience, linguistics, and cognitive modeling.

Scientific awards: No awards mentioned in source material.

She actively mentors undergraduate researchers through hands-on projects in her lab, recently presenting collaborative findings at the WPA conference in Irvine. Students join via direct email inquiry to pursue thesis work in experimental cognition.

Leads a dedicated undergraduate research team in Pioneer Hall investigating real-time language processing using reaction-time paradigms and computational simulations.