Julie Boland

Julie Boland is a Professor at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, affiliated with the Psychology and Linguistics departments. She holds a PhD from the University of Rochester and leads the Psycholinguistics Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary language processing research. Her work explores interfaces between word recognition, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistic variables, with special attention to bilingual processing and executive function roles.

Education: PhD, University of Rochester. She teaches research methods and language psychology, advising numerous PhD candidates. Key research themes include sociolinguistic priming, bilingual ambiguity resolution, and language processing in digital contexts. Her findings highlight how dialect variation, cultural background, and technology impact comprehension and production.

• Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, sentence processing, lexical access, sociolinguistic influences, bilingualism, and cognitive mechanisms.
• Labs: Director of the Psycholinguistics Lab, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration across Psychology and Linguistics.
• Teaching: Courses on language psychology and research methods for Psychology undergraduates/graduates.

Recent work addresses conversational dynamics in Zoom interactions, cultural differences in visual attention, and L2 structural priming effects. She emphasizes practical applications of psycholinguistic insights for education and technology design.