Ariel N. James

Ariel N. James is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, conducting research at the intersection of language processing and cognitive abilities. Her work focuses on individual differences in sentence comprehension during reading and listening, examining how reading experience, vocabulary, working memory, and attention influence understanding while addressing methodological challenges in measurement validity.

Her academic background includes:

• BA in Psychology, Stanford University (2011)
• PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017)

Research interests emphasize:

• Individual differences in language comprehension
• Eye-tracking and auditory processing methodologies
• Syntactic priming and adaptation mechanisms
• Replication and meta-analytic approaches in psycholinguistics
• Measurement challenges in cognitive characteristics

Analysis of her 2014-2023 publications reveals consistent focus on methodological rigor in psycholinguistics, with prominent themes including syntactic priming meta-analyses, eye-movement patterns during comprehension, and working memory's role in language production. Key contributions include large-scale replication studies and investigations into reader-text interactions.

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